Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2008

re: Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2008

Doug — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:46:45 GMT

When you have a million line WinForms project a number of things slow down in VS 2005.

- toolbox takes a long time to load especially when you have a lot of user controls

- large files can be painfully slow to type within. Is there an easy way to toggle intellisense on and off?

There may be better ways to orgranize to avoid the problems with large projects, but it would be nice if VS worked with large projects better.

re: Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2008

Mark — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:53:24 GMT

Turn off AutoToolboxPopulate in Tools->Options->Windows Forms Designer->Tools.

It defaults to On.

re: Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2008

Russ — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:22:21 GMT

What's the deal w/ these Channel 9 videos? It really frustrates me to have to sit through a 15 minute video to find out what I could have read in under 5 minutes. Not to mention there's no way to search/index the content. Not to mention audio isn't always available.

The time making the video would be much better spent typing up a blog entry. Or at least provide a transcript.

This probably isn't the best place for this rant, but I needed to say it somewhere...

re: Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2008

Doug — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:44:51 GMT

I think that the problem of working on large programs in VS illustrates that techniques that work well on smaller programs do not scale well to larger programs. This is something that we all face as programmers.

Writing a little line counter/stats program that reads sln, csproj and cs files shows the scale of the problem. It takes a long time to read in the files of the large project and compile that stats on it. There must be optimizations that I could do to make it run faster. Seeing how slow my little program runs gives me sympathy for what the VS programmers have accomplished.

It is still pretty amazing what VS can do and it is worth it even if it is a little slow sometimes.

If intellisense runs on a background thread, does the pending operation get killed nicely when you move the cursor?