Visual Studio 2005

Re: Slow save in VS2005 Web project.

Anessence — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:39:01 GMT

Thanks a lot guys! The same problem in VS2008 too.

Re: Still having the same problem

Roman_K — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:31:49 GMT

Hi guys,

I still having similar problem.

We had a solution of about 76 C++ (mainly MFC) projects and everything was fine until we added 3 VB .NET projects to it.

Now it takes about 1 minute to open solution (white screen during that) and about 2-3 minutes if I hit "Save all" button, even if one or none files opened and nothing changed anywhere !

(Just "save" for one file works fine).

I tried the suggested solutions (registry/antivirus/paths/defragmentation) but it did not helped :(

Any ideas on at least how I can trace down the problem ?

VS become almost unusable on Core 2 Duo 2.66 machine with 3GB of RAM (We using Visual Studio 2005 SP1 + Vista SP + Surround SCM source control on Win XP Pro SP2)

Re: I have found a solution !

ekuloglu — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:04:17 GMT

Thanks for this solution. I don't understand why this happening(!)

Re: I have found a solution !

mem0 — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:07:24 GMT

I have found another culprit in the slow save (and launch vs2005).

Much like the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList
there may be offending remote projects in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\DefaultFileOpenLocation
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\DefaultOpenProjectLocation

and any other values in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0

This is, of course if you have opened a remote project that no longer exists.

My problem came from the fact that i was setting up a new server and migrating projects. After some setup time, but before we added it to our network permanently it was shut down. During this time my VS2005 slowed to a near halt. Apparently, the last opened location gets det to the default and since, for me, that was a server that was off line, VS2005 (on any action) was extremely slow (apparently looking like crazy for the absent server).

Why VS2005 does this i have no idea.

Re: I have found a solution !

niraj_d418 — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:36:33 GMT

Thank you for spending some time and come out with a solution,

I was annoyed by the delay too much. thanks.

Re: I have found a solution !

PhatboySlim — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:46:36 GMT

Thank you for posting this. I too was having a problem. Glad I was able to find a solution so quickly.

Re: I have found a solution !

DunyaFani — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:06:34 GMT

Thank you for this solution

Re: I have found a solution !

Jinx101 — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 23:14:06 GMT

My virus checker (Symantec) appears to have been the culprit, especially when dealing with network drives. I temporarly disabled it on a number of occasions recently to test and I didn't have the Visual Studio IDE slow down for near as long (the longest now is 5-6 seconds and it only happens every, I'll guess 10th save or so).

Re: I have found a solution !

Jinx101 — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 20:58:53 GMT

I'm also having this issue. I'm using Visual Studio 2005 and I've created a ASP.NET website (using VB.NET) that is saved onto a network drive. Almost every save takes a minimum of 20 seconds (tacks the CPU and locks up the IDE). The network is running fine. I've cleared the registry MRU list above which hasn't helped.

I've haven't turned on a file system watcher though I may to see how much IO is going in and out (I recall reading someone having a similiar issue that identified VS doing a lot of read/write calls to various files).

Re: I have found a solution !

Jojo1771 — Tue, 23 May 2006 15:59:49 GMT

I'm so glad I found this reply. I have had the same problem.

VS took 5 mins to open
Took at least 1 min to save a single file. All local machine.

Problem all started when our old dev machine went off line.

VS had all those urls in the registry and was timing out on them. What a horrible bug. I would rather see a huge error msg, then somthing work correctly, but just at the speed of business.

Any ways, I cleared every instance of the borken url out of the VS8.0 reg. And every thing works great.

Thanks!

Re: I have found a solution !

Volcano_88101 — Thu, 04 May 2006 13:49:46 GMT

I am experiencing this same problem. There are no URLs in my MRU. I have 10 entries 9 of which are %USERPROFILE%\ and one of which is a C:\inetpub\wwwroot link

Saving the exact same content in a text file results in no noticeable cpu jump, lag or etc. Saving the exact same content in an html or .aspx page causes a 100% CPU spike for 2-7 seconds. I don't understand how saving something as simple as a bit of text can make an AMD 64 3400 with 1GB of ram SPIKE AT 100% FOR 2-7 seconds CAUSING OTHER APPLICATIONS TO LAG

Re: I have found a solution !

Octothorpe — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 13:50:16 GMT

Thank you very much Andersen for the analysis and the solution. I had the same problem, and it worked perfectly. It feels like I just upgraded from a pentium 133 to a P4 3.0 Ghz.

Re: I have found a solution !

danmor — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:28:38 GMT

(second attempt to reply. First threw 403.1 error)

Interesting! There was a bug that was fixed before we shipped where we scanned local drives on the MRU list when the product launched. Perhaps this is a related case. I'll check our bug database to see if this is a known issue. If not I'll enter a new bug. Thanks for your information!

I have found a solution !

Andersen — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:42:21 GMT

After spending the day trying to resolve this problem, I finally found a solution !

With the help of a network packet analyzer I was able to find out what stalls Visual Studio. I found that whenever I saved a file, in my web project, Visual Studio did a DNS lookup on a host on my local network. This host was offline so although it managed to resolve it's IP address, there was no response from it. After a timeout period Visual Studio stops trying to connect to this host and goes on with it's business of saving the file.

I searched my registry to find the source of this host name and found it to be present in: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList. This registry key is where Visual Studio stores all recent projects that have been opened. In that list a project, located on a remote computer, was found. When I removed that item from the registry, Visual Studio no longer took 20 seconds to save it's Web project files.

I don't have a clue why Visual Studio feels the need to browse through my recent projects, every time I try to save a file, but my hope is that the guys developing the product will now know where to look in order to fix the problem.

Re: Slow save in VS2005 Web project.

Andersen — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 07:18:58 GMT

This problem occurs with all web projects, newly created as existing solutions.
I do not have any network projects in my solution, only a simple web page (htm file) and no images.
The problem appears to occur no matter which type of file is in my solution, even text files are very slow saving.
All files are on the file system, I am not hosting them on any remote computer or web site.
The problem does not occur in my C++ / C# projects (I have never tried to make a VB or J# projects).