Help fix performance problems in VS
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Oops - 1-voted instead of clicking for page 1 - off to Q&A to find out how to retract. [EDIT] Couldn't work out how to retract, so 5 voted it as well. Apologies, Stewart
modified on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 4:16 AM
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From the link: If VS goes unresponsive for more than 2 seconds, Perf Watson grabs a stack frame. That's the problem. When I use it, VS 2010 rarely goes unresponsive for 2 seconds, it just feels sluggish. Usability tests have proven over and over that if something takes more than 100 ms, users notice it's not instantaneous. By 300 ms, it becomes obvious. By 1 second it becomes measurably disruptive. Microsoft has an excellent usability department, so why do so many divisions and teams at Microsoft ignore them? (Rhetorical question--solving customer problems takes a back seat to using the latest "in" technology.)
RE: sluggish - If you watch any of the MS instructional videos, say for Silverlight, you'll see very snappy VS2010 performance. Oh, and I'll bet all those videos are being recorded on virtual PCs, which I have found to be slightly slower than the non-virtual kind. I'm running a 3 year old WinXP system at work and I'd chalk up the sluggishness to the PC's age and OS, if it weren't for the fact that I've got a 'decent' Win7 64 desktop at home (only 4GB though) which is still no where near as snappy as what I see in the videos. Maybe their usability department is all using boxes with beastly CPUs and lots of memory and, therefore, don't see nearly as much sluggishness.
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This sounds like an interesting VS plugin: VS PerfWatson[^]. The plugin detects when Visual Studio hangs. When it hangs, it sends the hung stack trace to MS. MS spends less time investigating VS performance problems and more time fixing them[^]. :cool:
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Judah HimangoMy VS2010 Pro has just decide to crash with: An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details. The error is: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. for ANY project, even if it only has a form with 1 text box in it and simple code such as: Public Class Form1 Dim AIFName As String = TextBox1.Text & ".AIF" End Class I uninstalled the whole VS2010 & installed it again - exactly the same problem. What a PITA this is - screwing up my schedule. Tried to install VS2010 on an older machine but it is so slow it is unusable.
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My VS2010 Pro has just decide to crash with: An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details. The error is: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. for ANY project, even if it only has a form with 1 text box in it and simple code such as: Public Class Form1 Dim AIFName As String = TextBox1.Text & ".AIF" End Class I uninstalled the whole VS2010 & installed it again - exactly the same problem. What a PITA this is - screwing up my schedule. Tried to install VS2010 on an older machine but it is so slow it is unusable.
I've found the cause of your problem: you're using Visual Basic.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon
Judah Himango -
I've found the cause of your problem: you're using Visual Basic.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon
Judah Himango -
Maybe, because when I try the same thing in C# using VS2010, I don't get any error! :-) But I don't plan to convert all my apps because of a MS error, so I guess I will have to find the cause of the problem.
You using Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1?
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Judah Himango -
You using Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1?
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Judah Himango -
Joe Woodbury wrote:
That's the problem. When I use it, VS 2010 rarely goes unresponsive for 2 seconds
Really? Mine freezes all the time... I could be in the middle of typing, and it'll just suddenly lock up for a good minute or two. It's gotten to the point that when it happens, I just browse a few websites and check back now and then to see if it's woken up yet.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)I had the same thing happening - infuriating and highly stressful when you are trying to get something done. The solution I was working on had 3 projects that all were vs2008, so had been upgraded to vs2010. Long story short, I think (I know I did, but think these were the causes of improvements) I saw improvements by creating a new vs2010 solution and then adding in the projects to it. Also, I read that you shouldn't store any of the projects on a network drive as the i/o is heavy with vs2010 and I think that helped some. Do a search (it dawned on me to that day) on vs2010 slowness to find pointers but yeah, we shouldn't have to live like this. I did install the plugin as it seemed like an efficient way for us and MS to work on some of these problems!!!
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It's a colloquialism. If I'm going to go through the trouble/hassle of installing a plug-in, they're gonna have to take it to heart and start telling me something besides, "it's not worth fixing". In case you haven't picked up on it yet, that really pissed me off.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997To be fair, not all problems are Microsofts fault. Take for example: vs2010-rtm-crashes-when-unlocking-xp[^] - from the memory dump wesaw the video driver was the culprit, not a Microsoft problem. I too have had my fair share of Connect issues rejected, marked as designed, or wont fix. Half the time I think its due to all the hoops and quality checks to get releases out the door at Microsoft, eg: DebugDiag - The Saga to RTM[^]
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Hmm, I thought I was, but after the re-installation I am not sure whether the update process did install it... I can't see it mentioned anywhere in the About. Thanks - I will look into this in the morning.
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Bah... Looks nice, but my office still uses XP, and that requires Vista/7.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)You're not alone :sigh:
