Visual C++ 2008 Forms Incredibly Slow

Question

In Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition when adding forms all of the default handlers for buttons, check boxes, etc go into FormName.h by default. So when I do this most of my handler code now goes in the header, then I switch back to the "Design View" to see the form designer. Once I have any reasonable size interface going back to "Design View" from the code view (of the header FormName.h) takes on the order of 1-3 minutes for (what I assume to be) the form designer to re-parse the header file to roundtrip any changes I may have made in the actual code.

Is there a way to change this behavior? I've done some basic Googling but haven't really found anyone complaining about this issue, so I assume I'm missing something obvious. Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

It's a known problem with using Windows Forms designer with C++ in Visual Studio. You have to move your definitions of member functions manually from a header file to corresponding source file. You might want to take a look at this thread where I raised this issue on msdn c++ group.

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