CODEWITHSUNDEEP
visual-studioperformancevisual-studio-2010
IAdapter
IAdapter

Reputation: 64817

How to speed up VS2010?

The process of compiling, creating exe and running it is very slow on my machine(and also stopping the exe by the stop button). Its a windows forms app with a very simple form. I see that in Release mode it works faster, but not fast enough.

There is also slow down of IDE right after I hit the stop button, it really needs to think about something for at least 10seconds(I understand that I'm killing the app, but why VS cant just understand it and don't think about it?).

Maybe uninstalling something or disabling something?

P.S. This is slow only after a few runs, but I think I just got too old machine. I would rather not update it right now.

I have 2GB of RAM.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2058

Answers (4)

Ian
Ian

Reputation: 4919

This is a duplicate question, but I can't find the duplicate. So in summary here's what the other one said :)

1) Get more memory, 4gig as a minimum.

2) Disable extensions

3) A list of changes to speed things up 1

4) Might of found the original

I love all my extensions, so memory is key to me.

Upvotes: 0

Tollo
Tollo

Reputation: 537

The BETA service pack worked wonders for me - lots of bits of VS2010 that were broken (like macros) started working and its significantly faster for me now - ymmv tho :)

Microsoft VS2010 SP1 Beta Link

Upvotes: 2

David Heffernan
David Heffernan

Reputation: 613442

I think the accepted solution is to upgrade to VS 2008.

Upvotes: 7

Will Dean
Will Dean

Reputation: 39520

Release mode will make the compiler slower, if anything. It generally makes the finished application smaller/faster, though.

VS2010 needs an enormous amount of memory, and if you have less than 3-4G, you're almost certainly being hit by that - that might be a cheaper upgrade than a new machine.

But all versions of the 'Visual' dev tools, right back to VC1.0, have been beasts that have required reasonably up-to-date computer specifications. I'm afraid that's just the way things are.

Upvotes: 5

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