Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE 2018 Update 2: Issue with double-click on a Microsoft Visual Studio solution (.sln) file

[FortranFan]

With Parallel Studio XE 2018 Update 2, is anyone else experiencing a problem where double-clicking on a Visual Studio solution (.sln) file leads to Visual Studio 2017 "not responding"?

After a long wait at the above state, if one tries to close Visual Studio 2017, the following results. 

[Devorah_H_Intel]

Issue will be fixed (again) in 18.0 U4 and 19.0 release.

[Steve_Lionel · Accepted solution]

I hope the team can figure out why it broke again and come up with a solution that is more robust. I understand that interfaces can break, but Microsoft is usually pretty good about this.

[Edward_Z_1]

My company has a very convoluted/difficult process of installing software. I am trying to figure out if we should go with Visual Studio 2017 and PSXE 2018 update 3 now or wait for update 4.

Also is there any particular version of  Visual Studio 2017 that should be avoided or is suggested?

Thanks for your expertise and advise.

[Devorah_H_Intel]

Edward Z. wrote:

  I am trying to figure out if we should go with Visual Studio 2017 and PSXE 2018 update 3 now or wait for update 4.

Also is there any particular version of  Visual Studio 2017 that should be avoided or is suggested?

Thanks for your expertise and advise.

Please refer to this article for supported versions of VS 2017:

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-compilers-integration-support-for-microsoft-visual-studio-2017