VisualStudio2005 very slow in debugging.

Question

I have 1GB ram in my pc. In my solution totally 48 projects are there. But I am debugging only one project. Each project is depending on other one. While debugging the project why visual studio is taking much memory usage. Also system is getting hanged.

Can any one please let me know if you have any suggestion to solve this debugging issue.

Thanks & Regards Haranadh

Answer 1

I do recall an issue where breakpoints would double up every time you did... something I can't remember.

Check if you have 1000s of breakpoints set (all for the same lines).

Answer 2

Have you tried turning off Inline complete (in the options)? This can sometimes cause this type of problem?

Answer 3

Just to get this out in the open -- is it possible to reduce the complexity of your solution? Do you really need 48 projects in there? How big is the project that you're working on in total?

Answer 4

I was getting always problem with intellesence also. While opening file or saving file always system getting slow and vs2005 status bar showing updating intellesense.

How I can solve this intellence issue.

Thanks, Haranadh

Answer 5

VS is just not very good at large projects/solutions, and MS is constantly claiming to be improving this (though forward progress on VS is always terribly hard to detect...)

My suggestions would be:

• 1GB is not enough RAM for the size of project you're working with
• VS2008 might well be better than VS2005
• Check that you're not trying to download symbols into the debugger
• Don't use the debugger (F5) if you just want to run the app - use Ctrl-F5

Answer 6

I've had this and fixed it by stopping my Virus Scanner from scanning the Directories Visual Studio uses as the Virus Scanner and IDE/Design Time compiler were locking each other for several seconds at a time sometimes.