Visual Studio has gotten very slow recently. It takes approximately 30s to more than a minute after a select a control before VS is ready to let me do anything. As you can imagine, this has tanked my productivity. I've taken to directly modifying the designer file, because that is way faster. I'm also getting an error every time I close VS.



It definitely seems to be a size issue. The form I'm working on is large and complex (~180 controls/components). On smaller forms it's not a problem.



I've done a repair on VS (reinstalled and then reapplied SP1). It helped for about 30 minutes.



Any ideas on how to fix this?



Thanks!

Ben Hyatt been bugging me (in a friendly way) to try out VS2008. Maybe its getting to be time



And maybe I need to get proficient enough in C# too



Thanks Ben!

Yeah, I've glanced at VS2008, too, but not for anything that is ready for production.  I like the graphical changes to it, but the silly "fuzzy text" in the WPF kills me.  You'd think they would work that one out  

I woke up this morning with dread. Working on forms has been agonizingly slow. Selecting a control can take a minute. Setting the Text on a label can take 10-15 seconds. Ugly.



A Bit of Background:

For more than a month I've been doing dev that doesn't really use the BO mapper or the security dialog or any thing that directly involves the StataFrame db (some of you are seeing where this is going, I'm sure ). Earlier this summer I move the StrataFrame db from my local environment to the corp office so a another developer could start using SF and helping me do the dev work.



The Light Bulb Goes Off (and the SF Connection Manager):

Well, this morning, when I started up VS, I get prompted for a connection to the SF db . Yesterday, as part of the work I was doing, I deleted the cached connection file used by the Connection Manager, so today I get the prompt. It must have been failing silently for a couple of months now. So, I open my VPN so my computer can access the SF DB and viola, it's speedy again.



So, once you have installed the SF framework, make sure you can connect to the SF db!

LOL....I am not laughing at you...but with you.  The DTE is aweful about purpressing errors.  We have fought this from the beginning.  I thought that the connection would throw an exception though....at any rate, I am glad that you have it going and it is speedy again....it is like getting a Christmas present in the middle of the summer

It froze last couple of nights...not so much the middle of summer though