Visual Studio 2010 still too slow!
by susheel on Jan.04, 2011, under Programming & Development
Awe sh*t! After 2 months of active use I can say for sure, Visual Studio has some serious problems with speed. I didn’t have the IDE crash on me, but it’s just too slow for any large project. Tried everything possible, cleaned out the cache, recreated the intellisense files but the program still keeps slowing down for no apparent reason. It’s really annoying when the program suddenly gets into a heavy disk access mode, to the point where even typing becomes impossible. I have racked my brains and fiddled with every possible tweak I could find on the web without success. Since our entire project is now moved over to VS 10 it’s too late to turn back now 
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UPDATE: I finally managed to fix Visual Studio 10. Please read the post Speeding up Visual Studio.
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April 19th, 2011 on 10:11 pm
Yup, I have a similar if no the same issue. I turned off intellisense and that seems to have helped quite a bit. But I’m still not sure if it’s the real cause. I’m going to play some more with the intellisense settings to see what I find.
Did you figure anything else out?
Running intel I7 3.0Ghz 6GB Ram 64 Bit Windows 7.
Thanks!
April 19th, 2011 on 10:31 pm
Did you try updating the automation API? But I guess Win7 already has the very latest API version. Read this.
http://blog.susheelspace.com/2010/11/speeding-up-visual-studio-2010-on-xp-and-vista/
It seems people have had some success by turning off plugins/extensions.
Other than that I too suffer from apparent slowdowns now and then and the only real solution I found to work is a complete restart of the system
(Not much of a solution is it?) One of my friend works with CodeLite http://www.codelite.org/.
April 30th, 2011 on 2:10 pm
Please read the post http://blog.susheelspace.com/2010/11/speeding-up-visual-studio-2010-on-xp-and-vista/ .
Most of the problems were fixed after that.