Thank you!

I have already downloaded and installed that hotfix.

Just disable the Dynamic Help by closing it's window in the IDE 

stmarti:

Thanks, but

Disabling the dynamic help forever is the first task for any vs.net "veterans" (I'm using vs more than 10 years)

I've remember when I first started vs.net 2002, the dynamic help looked very good... until I saw the vs process with 90-100% cpu usage in the task manager

Anyway these hangs in vs 2008 is not a big deal for me, just very disappointing to see this performance degradation from vs2005 to vs2008.

Thanks!

How do I do this?

I never use the Dynamic Help window.  Never have it open.

Thanks anyway!

 To be sure to close it: open it with ctrl+f1+d and use shift+esc to close it. The dynamic help always caused performance degradation in any version of vs.net.

This severe hanging in Visual Studio 2008 is a known issue and Microsoft says they're working on a fix (other than the aforementioned and not very helpful hot fix), but have no time frame. I've heard it has to do with Visual Web Developer, Ajax Extensions, and Toolbox loading, all working against each other.

Some posts that have helped others (but not me) are:

(1) Disable HTML validation - Tools\Options\Text Editor\HTML\Validation\   uncheck "Show Errors" checkbox

(2) Disable checking for certificate revocation - IE7 Tools\Internet Options\Advanced\Security Node\  Uncheck 'Check for publisher's certificate revocation'; IE6 Tools\Internet Options\Advanced   Uncheck 'Check for publisher's certificate revocation'

(3) Uninstall Web Expressions

Now, what helped me somewhat was this:

(1) Uninstall certain Office2007 components - MS Office Groove, MS Office InfoPath, Web Themes, and New and Open MSO Document Shortcuts. To do this, go to Add/Remove Programs and choose CHANGE (not Remove) for Office 2007. Then choos Add/Remove radio button, then select the above modules and let the wizard do the rest.

(2) Repair Visual Studio 2008. Put the disc(s) in and choose Repair.

The hotfix and first 3 thigns didn't help me, but the last 2 did.

I hope one of these thigns helps. It can be counter productive to say the least.

-Robert

Thank you Robert.

One thing that seems to have given me some relief was, even though I never use Dynamc Help, I un-checked all of the "Categories" and "Topic Types" in the Dynamic Help settings.  It seems VS08 no longer needs to get the Web.Config file every time I re-position the cursor or cut and paste within the page.

I still have the issue with VS08 needing to "get" every object data source file in my DAL folder every time I switch which page is in the focused window of the IDE.

Stevishere:

Thank you Robert.

One thing that seems to have given me some relief was, even though I never use Dynamc Help, I un-checked all of the "Categories" and "Topic Types" in the Dynamic Help settings.  It seems VS08 no longer needs to get the Web.Config file every time I re-position the cursor or cut and paste within the page.

I still have the issue with VS08 needing to "get" every object data source file in my DAL folder every time I switch which page is in the focused window of the IDE.

I spoke too soon.  We are back to getting Web.config every time the cursor is re-positioned or Cut and Paste is attempted in Source View.

I look forward to spending more time developing than working on the development tools.  VS08 is like using an air-nailer without compressed air.  I spend more time trying to get compressed air to my air-nailer than nailing thing together.

I've been experiencing all of these same issues as well. I don't use any 3rd party tools with VS08 either and I tried installing the hotfix and it only made things worse. The hotfix, I believe, was made to fix issues with the designer, not the code view.

I have my Options window open and I'm looking at the Help section and there is no obvious "Disable" feature. So how do I turn this off? Will this mean I can no longer use F1 to call up Help on the currently selected item? Not a huge deal, but I do use that feature every so often.

I'll try the IE7 settings too. Is this because VS08 use IE7 settings when it's downloading schema info for xml and xhtml documents? I don't see how that would affect the code editor though... I'll try it anyways. I hope another hotfix comes out soon!!

I have my suspicions about Office2007 as well. Only because almost all of the people that have VS2008 with problems have Office 2007 as well, AND, there are a handful of people who have VS2008 and no problems, and they all do not have Office 2007. Also, I'd read that the Visual Web Developer (used in the designer for VS2008) is an Office2007 component. And when I uninstalled certain Office 2007 features (and did a repair) it seemed to help me.

And I think it was posted somehwere about checking your path environment variables to see if Web Expressions or Office 2007 are in the path. Could be an issue (sorry, I don't remember the post exactly).

So, if all esle fails, you might try what I did (above) or uninstalling Office 2007 altogether.

However, MS says it's not related to Office, but more a combination of issues with Toolbox, Extensions, and VWDeveloper combined.

-Robert 

At this point, the only solution I can think of is a screensaver for the hour glass cursor in VS08.  I am worried I am going to end up with that hour glass image burned into my screen.

Anyone have code for such?

Does this repro if you create a new default web site on a file system?

Thanks for the idea Mikhail!

I will check that out soon.

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT):

Does this repro if you create a new default web site on a file system?

While we are waiting on me to test your suggestion....

is there any way to prevent VS08 from getting every ODS each time any page is loaded (and even sometimes when it has been sitting ope without focus and then bring it in to focus)?

This is extremely counter-productive.  I typically am required to wait 2-3 minutes each time i switch focus.

Thanks!

BTW I moved the "Getting ODS..." piece of the puzzle to this post: http://forums.asp.net/p/1260566/2355056.aspx#2355056