verbose logging a slow loading solution

Question

Hi All,

Although I could not find a suitable forum to put this question I will try it here.

When opening a solution in visual studio 2008 SP1 that contains a web deployment project it takes forever opening that solution. From the status bar at the botom I can see it is doing so long on the web deployment project.

Also in general Visual studio 2008 is becomming painfully slow and I did not find any hotfixes that solves these problems so I'd like to investigate myself what I can do.

Does anyone know how I can log what is happening behind the scenes in visual studio ( especially when opening a solution ) so that I can determine exactly why opening is taking so long?

Regards,

Ed

Answer 1

Hi Ed,

Thank you for your post.

Based on your description, it seems that the IDE of your Visual Studio 2008 is a bit slow when you try opening web application.

Honestly speaking, there would be many causes for the IDE slowness. However, we can try some common steps for troubleshooting.

Firstly, please try the points mentioned here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/0376db8f-4761-4ae5-9af2-98c53216318a#VS_IDE_unexpected_problems.
Have you ever installed any third party tools? If yes, running "devenv.exe /SafeMode" can hopefully solve your issue since this can eliminate the possibility that third party Add-ins or packages are causing problems.

For web development, the following hotfix would help you to improve Visual Studio performance.
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/02/08/vs-2008-web-development-hot-fix-roll-up-available.aspx

Additionally, another useful tool is the Process Monitor tool http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processmonitor.mspx which can capture the access log.
Filter on the process name devenv.exe in the log so that you see only the related list.
This should give you more info on what are the registry keys/ files being accessed when the issue happens. Then we can know what VS2008 will do at that time.

Hope this helps!

Best regards,
Yichun Chen

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Answer 2

Dear Yichun,

Thx for responding.

I have no problem with opening a web application. I am having problems with opening a solution which has a web deployment project in it. The solution has 4 projects in it. 1 website and 2 class libraries and the web deployment project. All in all a fairly small solution.

I have spend at least 3 days applying hotfixes and what not but nothing is helping.

When running process monitor filtered on devenv.exe while the phenomenon is occuring there are no new process activaties being added to the results. It simply hangs only to wake up again 15 minutes later after which new activaties are being added to the results again.

I also tried a "clean boot" but the sympoms are the same.

I hope that Microsoft includes some kind of mechanism in visual studio 2010 that will allow us to actually combat these issues as this is beginning to get quite frustrating.

Regards,

Ed Tijgen

Answer 3

Hi Ed,

Thank you for your reply.

When running process monitor filtered on devenv.exe while the phenomenon is occuring there are no new process activaties being added to the results. It simply hangs only to wake up again 15 minutes later after which new activaties are being added to the results again.

Based on your description, it seems, there is no other software or add-in that affects Visual Studio 2008. Visual Studio 2008 might load something of the project when you opening this solution.

For your concern on the performance of Visual Studio 2008, to feedback this issue in a formal way, could you please go to our Connect portal site and submit it?

    https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/

Every feedback submitted will be evaluated carefully by our engineers. They will let you know their comments further through that portal. It would be great if you can also paste the link to the submitted feedback here, so that other community members can see it as well. This will help Microsoft to provide better performance for most user. :)

Thank you for your suggestion.

Have a great week!

Best regards,
Yichun Chen

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