Is Visual Studio 2010 slow for anyone else?

Question

I read a lot about VS2010, which was much more impressive than VS2008. When I finally installed it, I found that it was actually much slower (with the exception of the Add Links dialog box).

For example, Silverlight projects take twice as long to load, starting the IDE itself is much slower, etc.

Am I missing something or is this the way it is for everyone?

Features: WinXP-32bit, RAM 3.5 GB, 7200RPM drive, NVIDIA QUADRO NVS 285 128 MB, Cure2Duo E4400 @ 2 GHz, PAE enabled.

Answer 1

Yes, I found this sluggish for a number of things, vs2008 seems more successful, except for links to links :)

Answer 2

Try disabling hardware acceleration for WPF and letting WPF display on software. This option helped me load VS with my project almost 200% faster even after loading the machine. It also helped me get rid of the Splash screen at the start of VS 2010.

Go to Tools | Options, then select "Environment | General. Then uncheck" Automatically adjust visual effects ... "and" Use hardware graphics acceleration ... "

One more tip. Try to force garbage collection for the IDE using Ctrl + Alt + Shift + F12. I found this helpful ...

This will be very useful if you are flipping through many projects, and also if you have many IDEs for different projects.

And finally, if you have any extensions, try disabling those that are not used all the time. Disabling codemaid helped me save a lot of time when typing and moving between code pages.

Answer 3

Perhaps Windows Automation API 3.0 may help some people:

Visual Studio 2010 is faster when Windows Automation API 3.0 is installed

- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981741

Windows Automation API 3.0 is included in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976779

Answer 4

"You just got a new computer without telling me ..."

NO - I just deleted the breakpoints!

You can accumulate hundreds of breakpoints throughout the year. Given that it took me just a few minutes to remove all the breakpoints I had, I think there is a connection with performance!

Just go Debug > Delete all breakpoints

Literally, it took almost 10 minutes to DELETE breakpoints! Significantly faster now, for compilation, scrolling and F12-ing.

Answer 5

I find VS 2010 much more productive - and I have zero problems with my hard drive (5200 rpm) (VS 2008 often stopped when doing massive R # refactoring (global renaming, etc.)).

However, since it has been working for me much longer than VS 2008 has ever been, it tends to consume my RAM (700 MB + after 8 hours of heavy-duty refactoring in a medium-sized project).

Trying to turn on ~ 7500 images, they collapsed after they chewed for a few minutes (yes, that was a mistake).

Answer 6

I use VS2010 in VM (2 GB RAM, on a 64-bit host with lots of RAM) and slow . In contrast, VS2008 is fast.

Answer 7

I was annoyed by the performance of VS2010 for a long time; especially when UNC stocks are involved. After I received the new hardware and decided to work locally, the performance was better, but still a slow reaction to the user interface (despite the fact that the new hardware counts Intel SSD710, 2 x XEONE5620 and 64 GB of RAM).

So, I found some performance improvements by eliminating the following in your antivirus of choice (my Microsoft Security Essentials):

• Added by devenv.exe to Excluded Processes
• My projects folder has been added to Excluded Files and Locations

At the moment, it has helped a lot - but there are still tricks. Hope others find this helpful.

UPDATED

In addition, when starting Tools> Options> Environment> General and disabling the "Automatically adjust visual perception based on client performance" function, it seems to help a little.

Also follow this link Performance Visual Studio 2010 SP1 ; it turns out that Power Power Tools (from Microsoft) and ReSharper (from JetBrains) together turn the VS2010 into one slow-moving giant. I had to disable the first, so that the latter played well .

Answer 8

Having suffered with the low performance of 2010 on several machines for quite some time, I think I recently found the answer - it just does not work well on 32-bit versions of windows. I did not have the opportunity to develop on a 64-bit installation until recently, and although this particular machine is not particularly powerful, it has 64 bits, and the difference in performance in 2010 is very noticeable. On a 64-bit machine, intelligence is not a roulette game that I have to do on tip-breaks; it just works well!

Answer 9

I have had performance issues since 2010.

My system has two ATI HD4670 graphics cards, a raptor hard drive, a 2.8 GHz processor and 4 GB of RAM. I also run Win7 x64 Ultimate.

Out of curiosity, what are your characteristics?

One thing you might want to do is look at the notes on this page on the MSDN page . He notes that for hardware acceleration to work in Silverlight, you need to have the current driver for XP.

Answer 10

I had big performance issues with Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7. It came to the conclusion that opening the .xaml file took a minute. And the building was painfully slow. After much research and testing, I came to a decision. → I deleted all the files that can be deleted in the folder C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Temp . It was over 40 GB of data. After that, Visual Studio returned to normal. I suspect that Resharper may have something to do with it. I am running version 6.1, and it looks like Resharper is saving a lot of cache data in this temporary folder.