Re: VS2005 IDE Crawls

The service pack addressed some performance issues with Visual Studio,
especially when you have multiple projects in one solution.
So it might help.

Robin S.
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"Julian" <julian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Many thanks for the comments

I had broadly come to the same conclusion. As a matter of interest I
found by keeping on opening copies of VS2005 and running a small
program. The machine appears to run out of memory and beome so slow
that you have to wait for it to update the screen when 6 copies are
open.

I had not tried the service pack but had figured more code running
would slow it down more. That has been my experience service packs in
the past.

Julian


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"Julian" <julian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi
I recently installed VS2005 standard edition on my pc which is
Athlon 1.4Ghz processor with 512 Mb of RAM with XP Pro sp2 and
although the performance of VS2003 was acceptable VS2005 takes an
age to load and the IDE is so sluggish to be almost unuseable.

I was considering upgrading the machine anyway and noticed that
there are good deals at the moment on 3 GHz Pentium 4 with 1Gb of
ram and wondered if any one had experience of the difference with
VS2005 and P4 compared to a slower processor dual core machine and
generally what specification machines gives an adequate performance

I basically only use it for winform programs so would normally only
have the IDE and sql server express running.


Julian

I second RobinS' suggestion to get 2 gig of memory. I also,as an AMD
user, suggest that you upgrade to a modern CPU and motherboard as
well. That 1.4 is getting pretty long in the tooth. You're going to
buy memory anyway, so I'd recommend that you move up to either an
Intel Core 2 Duo or an AMD X2 Socket AM2 outfit. Either upgrade will
require that you move to DDR2 RAM. Get a 2 gig kit.





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