I've just upgraded to 2008 recently. I'm working on an ASPX page that has a rather large viewstate and uses Telerik user controls.

While using the source editor in 2008 the application freezes up completely for approximately 3-5 seconds. This doesn't happen in 2005 with the same code. This occurs not only when I'm trying to use intellisense, but when I'm attempting to navigate the page. There have been no problems with C# code.

Getting extremely frustrated. Has anyone run into this problem?

 

Thanks~
 

Yes, we are aware of the issue and are working on a solution. However, we'd like to be sure that your case is the same as reported by few other people. Can you provide me with the page that exhibits the behavior? My e-mail is mikhaila-at-microsoft-dot-com

 Would be very interested to hear about any potential work-arounds. Thanks for your reply, the code is in the mail.

Is it faster if you close Properties window?

No, haven't noticed any differences with the properties window being opened or closed. I've got the solution running disconnected from any source control, and all of the interface settings as low as possible, including no default properties window.

 

Thanks

 

Hi,

I have been having the same problem with the HTML editor in vs2008.
I have a rather large page, and the environment freezes up every 5 seconds.
It took about half an hour to write 10 lines of markup, as a result.

the properties window being closed does not make it any faster.

 

-Avi
 

I have this issue too.  Very frustrating to type.  When in source view, modifying html is very slow because the UI freezes after I stop typing... and lasts for about 10 seconds.  Meanwhile the UI is "Not Responding".  This only happens on pages with large amounts of html (in my case ~3300 lines).  On pages with only a few lines of HTML, freezing does not occur.  I have Windows Vista Ultimate installed.

I've also noticed that the devenv.exe process is usually ticking up (memeory usage) quite rapidly during the time the UI is not responding.

I'm using Windows XP sp2, so I don't think it's a windows vista exclusive problem.
I hope there is a workaround for this.
 

Im having the same issue.

I know ScottGu has made a blog post about some things you can which off in Options in VS2008, but I can't find it now :(

I found this one, which could maybe solve some of you, expecial people who have installed VS2008 side-by-side with VS2005, which I guess most people have.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/27/vs-2008-compatibility-with-older-vs-2005-add-in-packages.aspx

 

Also have this problem having VS2008 installed on Windows XP SP2. Have the default setup with settings for web developer. Get this freezing in Source mode on even small pages (around 100 rows). Only used VS 2008 for one project this far and it is a Web application project. Haven't tried yet if I get the same problem with a Web site project.

Anyway, hopefully a fix will come out or I think I have to stick with VS2005 for a while.

 having the same problem.  It only happens with two projects (so far).  I have not done a lot of testing to see what the common factors between the projects are.   It happens to me on two seperate machines, one running xp sp2 and the other running vista business.

 
 

I was having the same issues too. My freezing took up to a 5 minutes. Here's a possible solution. Its working for me:



http://codeeleven.blogspot.com/2007/12/visual-studio-2008-and.html

pyarl:

I was having the same issues too. My freezing took up to a 5 minutes. Here's a possible solution. Its working for me:



http://codeeleven.blogspot.com/2007/12/visual-studio-2008-and.html

 

that didn't seem to work.. my problem is not so much with the toolbox intializing, but rather chronic freezups.

at this point, they mostly occur EVERY CHARACTER entered when editing an element's attribute, or, when selecting a different element.
It is virtually unusable at this point, and is causing a 3 hour edit turn into a 48 hour one. (the aspx doc has ~700 lines of code, and uses various ajax extension controls, ajax control toolkit 3.5 controls, and infragistics webgrid.)

Here are more symptoms:
-Any intellisense you have selected is lost when freeze ends
-Cursor often jumps to the beginning of the current line after a freeze, making attribute editing EXTREMELY frustrating
-Seems like the window layout of the environment is refreshing every time the freeze ends
-Cursor often disappears after a freeze, requiring a minimize-maximize of the environment to get it back.

 At this point I am outsourcing some of my HTML editing tasks to external markup editors, or visual studio's XML editor, which works fine. Though when I need changes made that affect the underlying class, or direct attribute changes, it is just as slow to switch between editors.
 

Hmmm.  I also have Infragistics controls on my page.  I tried removing the references at the top of the source page and now I can type without the freeze... except now I obviously can't compile unless I paste back in the references.  I tried moving the references to the web.config and my page started freezing again, only this time with a message on the bottom of the UI after I stop typing each time... "Updating JScript Intellisense".  Where are you Hotfix!?!?

The problem indeed seems to be dependant on presense of 3rd party controls. I also experience it on the pages with Telerik controls.

Mikhail, I think you have already enough evidence to start investigation :).