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How can I fix Visual Studio 2005 issue?

My VS 2005 is not responding all the time. I have tried all the optimization tricks listed on StackOverflow. I am working with Resharper 4.1. (not sure if this can cause this). What other ways can I try to isolate the root of the problem here?

Perhaps upgrading to VS 2008 can help me?

More details: - scrolling up and down the solution explorer - collapsing projects - seems pretty random

More: - It also seems to me worse if I retire to the car. I look at the top header and it looks like it keeps getting / unplugging as if I am navigating from one app to another (but I am not). any ideas?

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1) If you remove it, disable animation. I turn it off all the time, which 0.5 second of the window slide slows me down! But this is really bad on a remote desktop or virtual machine.

In VS2008 this is done by: Tools - Options - Environment - Animate Environment Tools



2) Outlook doesn't seem to work very well with VS2005. I don't remember why, but on one machine, if I opened Outlook + VS2005, then VS would be terribly slow. I didn't have this problem in VS2008.

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It actually sounds like maybe something other than VS is clogging your computer. Try leaving Task Manager or Process Explorer open and check what is consuming CPU or disk when freezes occur.



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In my experience, there might be overactive antivirus software or some hardware flaw. Try to replicate your environment to another computer (same version of Visual Studio, same updates, same add-ins) and work with the same projects.

If it would behave the same on a different PC, another approach would be to deactivate the add-ons one at a time and find the culprit.

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Have you tried loading Visual Studio without any add-ons?

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I had the same problem as I have been for months. When I open another tab, start debugging, close the tab, or even sometimes just edit the code, my VS2005 installation will hang for 5-10 seconds and sometimes longer. I tried to run it without launching Outlook, disabling Edit and Continue, enabling the LARGEADDRESSAWARE switch using the Visual Studio Command Prompt (4GB RAM on a 32bit machine) and nothing works. I'm going to try defragmenting my hard drive this weekend, but I don't think a fragmented hard drive will have such a pronounced effect on an application.

If you've found a way to fix your problem, I'd really like you to share it here.

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