This is a continuation from this post: http://forums.asp.net/p/1256940/2355042.aspx#2355042

I tthought I would separate the issue of "Getting ODS" from the source edit challenges.

To recap:

I am waiting on a newly created (empty content) page to load in VS08. I've emptied by Deleted Items and Junk Mail folders in Outlook...I ran out of things to do while I wait. It's still "Getting..." all of the ODSs in my project. 

Could it be because I am using Master Pages?  Even though the Master Pages does not utilize any ODSs.

Am I alone in my plight here?

While I am waiting on a page to load in VS08..."Getting ODS..." again...

Does anyone know if VS08 is supposed to use any caching for this?  I have 3gb RAM and only 46% utilized.  I would have thought all of these ODSs were cached somewhere when they are first loaded.

Anyone?.....

Excuse my ignorance... what is ODS?

I apologize,  I should not have used an acronym without using the full word at least once in the message!

ODS = Object Data Source.

My bad.

Thanks for asking!

I made the egregious error of clicking on the incorrect page I needed to work on.  I can't even click the "x" to close it until it gets done "Getting ODS..."...

...I already re-arranged all of my desktop icons...

...ran out of other things to do in other areas...

...so came out here to see if there is anything new, thought maybe my email response settings were working.

By now I am hoping it is done "Getting ODS..." so that I can close the incorrectly opened page.  Then, I can wait on it to "Getting ODS..." for the page I need to work with.

Maybe I can respond to some others' posts in the meantime...

I thought I might provide more specifics.

This morning I needed to make a small change to an existing web page:

•  I re-booted
• Opened VS08
• Opened the ftp site
• Loaded a large page
• Of course it needed to download all files from my DAL Folder
• The initial page finished loading.

I wanted to time an actual page load.  After the above completed, I clicked to open another page.  here is the content of the page:

<%@ Page Language="VB" MasterPageFile="~/eM8sDev/Broo.master" Title="Untitled Page" %>

</script>

</asp:Content>

</asp:Content>

I set a timer from the time I double-clicked the page to load, it took 00:02:43 to be ready for interactive work.

VS08 once again loaded web.config, my themes folder (78kb), contents of my App_Code Folder (101 Files in 2 Folders totalling 1.76mb).

My current Internet connection download speed is 3825kb/s.

Any opinions?

While waiting (I just started up VS08 for the first time today after a fresh re-boot)...

I thought I might offer my Tip of the Day! (no need to re-arrange desktop icons, or empty Recycle bin, did that Friday)...

When closing VS08 DO NOT LEAVE MORE PAGES OPEN (tabs) than you really need to work on whenever you decide to open a new session of the same project.

I made the incredible blunder of leaving (4) pages open in my Project when I closed VS08.  Now I get to experience all of the joy of watching VS08 "Getting..." each ODS in my Project not once each, but (4) TIMES FOR EACH ODS!  I might add that (1) of the pages I have open in the Project has only the code brought in when adding a new page (10 lines, no script or ODS, just (2) asp:Content controls.

Lest you think I only have crying spats over VS08, I think the intent of the improvements is fabulous!  There are many redeeming features.  However, if I could revert my current project back to 2.0 (I took the un-educated plunge and updated it to 3.5), so that I could go back to VS05 without re-writing most of it, I would.

If FTP the only option for you? I am interested if it is as slow if you open sive over http or copy it locally and open from a file system or from local IIS.