Large packages are extremely slow to remove or upgrade.

Question

Im using visual studio 2012 (also 2013). and TFS using the free tfs online repository.

I have angularjs installed, which has 57 files on the path to the script folder and 245 localization versions in the i18n subfolder. If, for example, I have angular 1.2rc3 installed, and I upgrade to version 1.2 (both through the package console and through the graphical interface). This makes the visual studio work for no more than 30 minutes. This machine has sufficient free resources and a fast Internet connection.

This can be replicated by removing the package. Is behavior a known issue? By the way, installing angularjs 1.2 in a new solution took a "normal" amount of time, that is, about 20 seconds.

Answer 1

I am using several Visual Studio 2013-2015 previews and I have the same problem as some of my friends, if you are looking for your favorite search engine, you will find others also complaining about this problem, I use TFS on the Internet on top of this and sometimes updates didn’t take minutes, hours of packages, such as angularjs + JqueryUI packages for VS 2015, this problem was solved, now we use bower instead of nuget for client packages and for VS 2013 I started using smaller packages instead of full packages, as I started using AngularJS Core (total 4 files la)> https://www.nuget.org/packages/AngularJS.Core instead

(I know this may not be the answer you are looking for, but I don't have 50rep to make this comment, and this problem took several hours)