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Simple question:

Can you share some ideas/tips/hacks to speed up working/programming/IO in Visual Studio IDE?

Thanks


Exact Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8440/visual-studio-optimizations

+3  A: 


-Show empty start environment : Tools->Options
-Add /nosplash to shortcut
-Disable F1. (Environment->Keyboard)
-Disable "Animate environment tools" (Environment->General).
-Disable Start Page (Environment->Startup).
-Disable "Track Active Item in Solution Explorer" (Projects and Solutions).
-Disable Navigation Bar (Text Editor->C#). I think this is available for every language.
-Set "AutoToolboxPopulate" to false (Windows Forms Designer).
-You can set the Code view as the default view when viewing Windows Forms. Just right-click on the cs file and select "Open With...".
-Open Visual Studio using the command line (devenv) rather than using the Start menu. I don't know why but I notice it loads faster.

Pat
+1  A: 

ReSharper and ViEmu addins, are a great combination to speed me up.

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