Hi:

Since upgrading from VS2005 Pro to VS2008 Pro I am constantly experiencing a very frustrating performance issue. First, the setup is VS 2008 Pro, running on Vista Ultimate with 2Gb of ram and 4Gb of readyboost. All hot fixes are installed, Vista is up to date- except I have not installed Vista SP1. It does not matter if I am running the development server or IIS 7 and I am having the same problem with or without debugging.

Press F5 or CTRL F5, it does not matter, and about a third of the time I will get a compile and the first page of the WAP project loads as expected (it is a simple first page with just a menu structure, no data access or anything else), in a few seconds. I can press the same keystroke 5 seconds later, without changing a thing in code anywhere, and it will take about two minutes (timed) to load the first page. Obviously it is not a first page load in the cache issue. To repeat, it makes no difference if debugging is on or off, or if I run against IIS or development server.

What is really weird, is if I put any content aspx page into split mode, click here and there about the split mode - and then click save or save all or something else at random on the menu -  it does not seem to matter where - and then press F5 - bang the first page of the website loads as it should, right after the compile in a very reasonable period of time. It seems as if I have to do something in the IDE to get the website to load with any sort of speed.

 After the first page of the website loads, perfomance is fine in all respects. But that two minute wait is a productivity killer, not to mention frustrating.

Also, periodically the IDE seems to loose it's connection with the css file in the App_Theme directory. It will periodically show all css classes or ids in the IDE as unknown with a green wiggly line.

 Is anybody else seeing this?

 TIA,

Bill

There is a hotfix available that may fix this issue (or may not). Check out the sticky one thread up (http://forums.asp.net/1112.aspx)

Thanks for the response, but as I said in the original post, all hotfixes are installed...

What was performance like before applying the hotfixes?

Did you only install the ones through windows update?

Do windows forms applications also take a long time to load?

Thanks for the response. As I said in my original post and in my response, I installed all hotfixes. They were installed right after the installation of 2008 as they were recomended, so I have no comparison to pre hotfix performance. I only use the master page/content page variants of windows forms as in .master and .aspx.

Cheers,

Bill

I read somewhere that installing Vista SP1 fixes this issue. But what about XP users?

I HAVE NO CLUE HOW PEOPLE DEVELOP WEBPAGES > 100 CONTROLS WITH THIS IDE?

I'm using visual studio 2008 but my webhosting services are not providing frame work 3.5

how i can convert to old version is there any solution?

You'd probably be better off starting a new thread with this question as it has nothing to do with performance issues and this is a terribly old thread.

Cheers.

i ask for solution sir ???

DOn't have any idea ....

I'm sorry but I don't have a solution for you. I was just visiting this thread because someone responded to one of my old subscriptions.

But you should create a new thread in the Visual Studio 2008 forum to ask a new question. You will have a far better chance at recieving an answer.

Click on this link and then click the button "Write A New Post"

http://forums.asp.net/1112.aspx