I just downloaded this Visual Developer 2008 yesterday.  All the functionallity is great, but it runs super slow and is choppy at times; Anyone else get this a lot?

I'm connecting to live http web sites to edit existing ASP pages and to create new ASPX pages.  Sometimes it takes 4 or 5 minutes for the program to connect properly and list the folders/files on the site.  I know this program is a memory hog, but I have plenty to handle it.  Is there a more stable older version or is there anything I can do to get this thing  running more smoothly?  :)

Thanks!
~James J.~

 Yeah, I had the same problem when connecting to remote HTTP server, especially when FrontPage extensions were turned on.  And eventually, after one ASPX page had a lot of code, "1000+ lines" it was slow when I typed.  So I could type a whole line of text, but it would take 1 - 2 minutes to display on my screen.

Personally, I upgraded to Visual Studio Professional (way worth the cost) and develop locally on my system.  That way, everything is oober fast, and there's only a few things you need to change when going into production (connection strings, etc).

If you design your site with this in mind, (using realative URI's like, ~/images/button.jpg) it's real simple.

I struggled with VWD's performance issues for a while.  Now, developing locally, then transfering to a production server makes much more sense to me.

Yeah, I had a feeling it had something to do with FrontPage extensions.  I'm just trying to get the hang of working with Access databases in asp.net, so I just copied down the database and started working locally and... no more lock ups :D  (although semi-still slow at times)

.NET has some really cool features, but thus far it's been a pretty big learning curve.  Like validating form fields on the DetailsView edit template using regular expressions...Seems like it should be a little easier than that to make sure a form field is a certain amount of characters, but it is cool how your error message pops up immediately if the wrong data type/length is in there.  What's the biggest difference with Visual Studio Professional over the Express?

Thanks again!
~James J.~