Developer Studio's 'Generate Code' hangs or silently stops with no progress, but only for .utility files specifically — .entity files generate fine in the same project. What typically causes this, and how is it fixed?

Q: Developer Studio's 'Generate Code' hangs or silently stops with no progress, but only for .utility files specifically — .entity files generate fine in the same project. What typically causes this, and how is it fixed?

This has been traced to a corrupted or stale .utility.xml file in the Build Home for that specific utility. Renaming (or moving aside) the problematic .utility.xml file in the Build Home, then clearing Developer Studio's local cache (right-click the .xml file's node and use Open Containing Folder to locate and clear that cache directory), and retrying Generate Code and Deploy has resolved this hang.

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This has been traced to a corrupted or stale .utility.xml file in the Build Home for that specific utility. Renaming (or moving aside) the problematic .utility.xml file in the Build Home, then clearing Developer Studio's local cache (right-click the .xml file's node and use Open Containing Folder to locate and clear that cache directory), and retrying Generate Code and Deploy has resolved this hang.

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