I've read a lot of stuff about VS2010 being much more performant than VS2008. When I've finally installed it, I found that it, in fact, is much slower (save for the Add References dialog).
For instance, Silverlight projects take twice as long to load, the startup of the IDE itself is much slower, etc...
Am I missing something here or is it like this for everyone?
Specs: WinXP-32bit, 3.5GB RAM, 7200RPM drive, NVIDIA QUadro NVS 285 128MB, Cure2Duo E4400 @ 2GHz, PAE enabled.
I have zero performance issues with 2010.
My system has two ATI HD4670 video cards, a raptor hard drive, a 2.8GHz quad processor, and 4GB of ram. I'm also runing Win7 x64 Ultimate.
Out of curiosity, what are your specs?
One thing you might want to do is review the Remarks on this MSDN Page. It notes that you have to have a current driver on XP for hardware acceleration in silverlight to work.
yeah, I've found it sluggish for a number of things, vs2008 seems snappier except for the add references :)
I find VS 2010 much more performant - and I have zero issues with my (5200 RPM) harddrive (VS 2008 would often stall when performaning massive R# refactorings (global renaming etc.)).
However, since I have it running a lot longer than VS 2008 ever was able to, it tends to gobble my RAM (700MB+ after 8 hours heavy-duty refactoring on a medium size project).
Trying to include ~7500 images crashed it tho after chewing on for a few minutes (yes, it was a mistake).
Possibly the Windows Automation API 3.0 can help some people:
Visual Studio 2010 runs faster when the Windows Automation API 3.0 is installed
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981741
I'm using VS2010 in a VM (2GB RAM, on a 64-bit host with lots of RAM) and it is slow. VS2008 runs blazingly fast, by contrast.