VS 2005 Slow
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I installed VS 2005 a couple weeks ago. I took our main project which is in C# along with its associated dll's and recreated it from VS 2003. Because I was told the in-place conversion is a bad idea, I created new projects and added the appropriate forms as was recommended to me. I've now spent the last 2 days trying to use this....program. To say it is slow would be an extreme understatement. I am running a HP Xeon 2Ghz processor with 1GB RAM. Before starting VS 2005, I have 400MB in use, after starting I have 830MB in use. I have about 30GB of disk space free and all my updates are current. When I switch design forms, I will wait about 20 seconds for the page to redraw. The current page I'm working on has 35 field on it plus labels. I drop an item on the form (takes about 15 seconds) and then change the name. I then get a refactoring message for 25 to 50 seconds. If I want to move something, I click on it and half to wait for about 10 seconds otherwise I end up moving something else on the form instead of the object I clicked. I had a Dell laptop that I loaded VS 2005 on before. I figured it just wasn't big enough so I bought a new one. I can't do much better than this one! As long as VS 2005 is not minimized, devenv.exe is running at least 45% of my CPU. Minimize it and I'm fine. Any suggestions? Can I somehow replace .Net 1.1 with .Net 2.0 in VS 2003. I'm willing to just stay with that rather than fight with this junk until Microsoft fixes it (but I need 2.0). I can only see that it is them, not anything I have on my machine because this machine is still pretty clean! I've search Code Project for "2005 slow" and "visual studio slow" and didn't get any hits.
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I installed VS 2005 a couple weeks ago. I took our main project which is in C# along with its associated dll's and recreated it from VS 2003. Because I was told the in-place conversion is a bad idea, I created new projects and added the appropriate forms as was recommended to me. I've now spent the last 2 days trying to use this....program. To say it is slow would be an extreme understatement. I am running a HP Xeon 2Ghz processor with 1GB RAM. Before starting VS 2005, I have 400MB in use, after starting I have 830MB in use. I have about 30GB of disk space free and all my updates are current. When I switch design forms, I will wait about 20 seconds for the page to redraw. The current page I'm working on has 35 field on it plus labels. I drop an item on the form (takes about 15 seconds) and then change the name. I then get a refactoring message for 25 to 50 seconds. If I want to move something, I click on it and half to wait for about 10 seconds otherwise I end up moving something else on the form instead of the object I clicked. I had a Dell laptop that I loaded VS 2005 on before. I figured it just wasn't big enough so I bought a new one. I can't do much better than this one! As long as VS 2005 is not minimized, devenv.exe is running at least 45% of my CPU. Minimize it and I'm fine. Any suggestions? Can I somehow replace .Net 1.1 with .Net 2.0 in VS 2003. I'm willing to just stay with that rather than fight with this junk until Microsoft fixes it (but I need 2.0). I can only see that it is them, not anything I have on my machine because this machine is still pretty clean! I've search Code Project for "2005 slow" and "visual studio slow" and didn't get any hits.
Give SharpDevelop[^] a try. It's got a few problems, particularly in the debugger, but it's pretty capable. VS 2005 is slow (try building a web proxy to SalesForce and then opening the .cs file; not pretty). The intellisense adds a lot of extra processing. You might want to try turning off some of the options.
Logifusion[^] If not entertaining, write your Congressman.
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I installed VS 2005 a couple weeks ago. I took our main project which is in C# along with its associated dll's and recreated it from VS 2003. Because I was told the in-place conversion is a bad idea, I created new projects and added the appropriate forms as was recommended to me. I've now spent the last 2 days trying to use this....program. To say it is slow would be an extreme understatement. I am running a HP Xeon 2Ghz processor with 1GB RAM. Before starting VS 2005, I have 400MB in use, after starting I have 830MB in use. I have about 30GB of disk space free and all my updates are current. When I switch design forms, I will wait about 20 seconds for the page to redraw. The current page I'm working on has 35 field on it plus labels. I drop an item on the form (takes about 15 seconds) and then change the name. I then get a refactoring message for 25 to 50 seconds. If I want to move something, I click on it and half to wait for about 10 seconds otherwise I end up moving something else on the form instead of the object I clicked. I had a Dell laptop that I loaded VS 2005 on before. I figured it just wasn't big enough so I bought a new one. I can't do much better than this one! As long as VS 2005 is not minimized, devenv.exe is running at least 45% of my CPU. Minimize it and I'm fine. Any suggestions? Can I somehow replace .Net 1.1 with .Net 2.0 in VS 2003. I'm willing to just stay with that rather than fight with this junk until Microsoft fixes it (but I need 2.0). I can only see that it is them, not anything I have on my machine because this machine is still pretty clean! I've search Code Project for "2005 slow" and "visual studio slow" and didn't get any hits.
VS 2005 is slow... Welcome to VS 2005! :) Have you looked at the MSDN Forums? Lots of people have reported performance problems and in some cases there are some tweaks you can do, and there are one or two hotfixes.
Kevin
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I installed VS 2005 a couple weeks ago. I took our main project which is in C# along with its associated dll's and recreated it from VS 2003. Because I was told the in-place conversion is a bad idea, I created new projects and added the appropriate forms as was recommended to me. I've now spent the last 2 days trying to use this....program. To say it is slow would be an extreme understatement. I am running a HP Xeon 2Ghz processor with 1GB RAM. Before starting VS 2005, I have 400MB in use, after starting I have 830MB in use. I have about 30GB of disk space free and all my updates are current. When I switch design forms, I will wait about 20 seconds for the page to redraw. The current page I'm working on has 35 field on it plus labels. I drop an item on the form (takes about 15 seconds) and then change the name. I then get a refactoring message for 25 to 50 seconds. If I want to move something, I click on it and half to wait for about 10 seconds otherwise I end up moving something else on the form instead of the object I clicked. I had a Dell laptop that I loaded VS 2005 on before. I figured it just wasn't big enough so I bought a new one. I can't do much better than this one! As long as VS 2005 is not minimized, devenv.exe is running at least 45% of my CPU. Minimize it and I'm fine. Any suggestions? Can I somehow replace .Net 1.1 with .Net 2.0 in VS 2003. I'm willing to just stay with that rather than fight with this junk until Microsoft fixes it (but I need 2.0). I can only see that it is them, not anything I have on my machine because this machine is still pretty clean! I've search Code Project for "2005 slow" and "visual studio slow" and didn't get any hits.
VS 2005 is slow... Welcome to VS 2005! :) Have you looked at the MSDN Forums? Lots of people have reported performance problems and in some cases there are some tweaks you can do, and there are one or two hotfixes. Kevin
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VS 2005 is slow... Welcome to VS 2005! :) Have you looked at the MSDN Forums? Lots of people have reported performance problems and in some cases there are some tweaks you can do, and there are one or two hotfixes. Kevin
Yes. Apparently C# IDE specifically has some issues and unfortunately, that's what I program in. I have turned off automatic backups, I've turned off the navigation bar and I've turned off the intellisense they want off. These have helped and I am now at annoyingly slow rather than cripped, as I was. There was one hotfix that Microsoft grudgingly gave me (kbid=841978). I have an OEM installed O/S, heavens forbid, so they were instisting I was suppose to go through the OEM to get my fix! It is installed but I have seen no improvement with that. It did fix the issue outlined in the KBID so at least other things sped up significantly. Thanks.
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Yes. Apparently C# IDE specifically has some issues and unfortunately, that's what I program in. I have turned off automatic backups, I've turned off the navigation bar and I've turned off the intellisense they want off. These have helped and I am now at annoyingly slow rather than cripped, as I was. There was one hotfix that Microsoft grudgingly gave me (kbid=841978). I have an OEM installed O/S, heavens forbid, so they were instisting I was suppose to go through the OEM to get my fix! It is installed but I have seen no improvement with that. It did fix the issue outlined in the KBID so at least other things sped up significantly. Thanks.
I don't understand why the hotfixes aren't easily obtainable - specially for developers! All the more so when in recent years they've become very slow at releasing service packs!. VS 2003 SP1 has only just come out. VS 2005 SP1 is due this year but don't count on it.
Kevin