There was a bug filed against Chutzpah reporting that Chutzpah’s Visual Studio extension was causing database connection error popup. I was surprised by this since all Chutzpah really does is traverse the project hierarchy and I wasn’t sure how this could result in that error. After digging in and searching online a bit I found the issue. The act of traversing a node in the IVsHierarchy can cause arbitrary side affects (like establishing a database connection!).  In order to determine if this can happen you must check the __VSHPROPID.VSHPROPID_HasEnumerationSideEffects property on an IVsHierarchy item. Once I found this the fix was simple, just skip any node that has that property set.