[dba-VB] Visual Studio grinds to a halt

I am running an Access / Excel automation on my dev laptop.  It is doing a set of long running 
queries to populate a spreadsheet with sets of counts, running VBA, accessing the SQL Server on 
another machine over my network etc.

I am also running Visual Studio trying to get some work done.  Suddenly VS halts and throws up a 
"waiting for Excel" message.

No idea at what level.  The entire system is not hung, i.e. I can use other open apps, just not 
Access / Excel and ... Visual Studio.

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John W. Colby
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