Great tips on how to speed up Visual Studio 2008! Combine this with the hotfix and SP1, and…it’s almost as fast as Visual Studio 2005. 😉
- Turn off validation
- Turn off the Navigation Bar
- Show Live Semantic Errors
- Track changes
- Animate environment tools
- Compile for the correct platform
- Speed up debugging by removing breakpoints
- Formatting XML for easy diff
Find out all the details at the original post: Speed up Visual Studio – EPiServer Labs.
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recently my vs2008 was taking hell lot of a time building windows mobile application though i thought it was the problem of Computer than i came to know the vs was slow in building due to Platformverification was on we can make vs fly by skipping it