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I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. Intellisense is SO SLOW. There's a good half a second delay after I press any key in the source code window. This is absolutely crippling to my development speed. Is there anything I can do to speed up Intellisense? I lost my Visual Studio 2008 key :(.

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Can you use an express version (rather than a beta edition since you lost your key)? They are free and very zippy, but don't support some of the essentials like ReSharper.

JP Alioto
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Don't use the beta man. You're better off using the express ed of 2k8.

bobobobo
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Like was mentioned in the comments, the language matters. Nevertheless, I bet the following (do all of them) get you moving again. I plan to go back to my preferred settings with Beta 2 and see if things have improved.

  • Set your Windows appearance to Windows Classic. I don't like it either. Do it.
  • Tools > Options > Text Editor > C# > Advanced > Uncheck "Highlight references to symbol under cursor". Additional note: I've confirmed with the C# IDE team that this has been moved to a background thread and had it's thread priority dropped for Beta 2.
  • Close text editor windows you aren't using, and restart Visual Studio periodically (I do about once/day on purpose and 2-10 times/day from crashes - my project is a far edge case that breaks it often).
280Z28
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I do not know about VS2010 but VS 2005 would have that problem I beleive when C++ was being used. To fix it I had to stop intellisence from running by renaming Feacp.dll .

Nick

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