Is anybody experiencing extreme slowness when using Visual Studio 2008? I have a fairly beefy machine so I don't think hardware is the issue, and I didn't have these issues with 2005. Basically everything that I do is slow, from opening a new project, to opening code, to saving files. All of my Windows Updates are up, I have VS2008 SP1 installed, and I even tried disabling the virus protection.
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Yes it is slow.
I have a very fast Intel E8500 machine (2x3.16ghz) with 4gigs of RAM and Visual Studio 2008 IS SLOW.
Opening a dialog is slow, creating a new project is slow, you have to wait a few seconds after the dialogs.
NOT everytime though, because once you load these dialogs in memory, they are faster the second time.
But it's still too slow, much too slow.
toto
2009-05-03 21:07:31
Did you experience the same slowness with 2005?
Mike C.
2009-05-04 13:22:51
Yes. But 2008 is slightly faster. On my laptop I made it go faster because I have only C++. Don't install what you won't use, I noticed a speed improvement.
toto
2009-05-04 15:04:19
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Not everyone has the problem you're seeing. Try to disable add-ins, as has been suggested, then also monitor your computer to get an idea of what's going on. Is there extra disk I/O? A lot of page faults? What?
John Saunders
2009-05-03 21:13:08
On Windows XP and below, use Administrative Tools->Performance. On Vista and above, I suggest starting with Task Manager, then clicking the Resource Monitor button.
John Saunders
2009-05-04 19:43:31
Resharper is a massive performance drain - even with the new release.
Fortyrunner
2009-05-03 23:15:41
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Empty your recycle bin. Turn off 'wrap text' in the output window.
Matt Hinze
2009-05-03 21:20:47
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This seemed to fix my immediate issue (copied and pasted from the link provided by Gulzar):
As an update, I found an even better fix so you dont' have to lose any functionality in VS 2008. This also drastically improved performance (response time) for me in SQL server management Studio.
In Internet Explorer 7...
Tools->Internet Options->Advanced->Security Node->Uncheck 'Check for publisher's certificate revocation*'
Once I did this, like magic, VS 2008 works great even with 'Enable the Visual Studio hosting process' checked and SQL Server Management Studio's response time was almost immediate.
It is a good day!
My theory is the corporate network I am in is blocking certain ports (out of my control), and thus certain 'behind the scenes' requests are timing out, causing the delays.
- Robbie
Mike C.
2009-05-04 21:35:43