"Bill McCarthy <no spam>" <bill_mcc &#64; iprimus.com.au> wrote in message
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> hi Bill,
>
> 1) Yes
> 2) No
> 3) No
> 4) Yes
>
> ;)
>
> Bill.
>
>
> "William Ryan eMVP" <bill@NoSp4m.devbuzz.com> wrote in message
> news:u0zjblgFEHA.1180@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >
> > We currently have a fairly large project (roughly 80,000 lines of code)
and
> > on some of our slower development machines, the developers are noticing
that
> > hitting the enter key two or three times causes the IDE to hang for
about 3
> > seconds. All in all it's slowing down. I have a really fast machine so
I'm
> > not seeing it, but when I look at their machines, it's defintiely
notable.
> > We've unhooked all add-ins and verified that there isn't anything
running in
> > the background that's causing this (we've stopped each process the
machine
> > runs other than the bare minimum) and it's still happening.
> >
> > Anyway, I've heard a few people mention that it's the IDE's 'background
> > compile' that's causing this and it isn't unusual. Does anyone know 1)
Is
> > there really a background compile? 2) Is it in C# too if it exists? 3)
can
> > it be shut down? 4) Will compiling a lot of the classes into libraries
and
> > adding them as .dlls/references alleviate any of this?
> >
> > The other guys in the department are pretty sure that this is the
problem
> > and we're thinking of moving most of the stuff to dll's but I just
wanted to
> > make sure this will do something before we go ahead with it. It will
entail
> > a fair amount of work.
> >
> > If not, has anyone had a similar problem? It's also noteworthy that not
all
> > programs we work with are slow, it's only this one which happens to be
the
> > largest.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bill
> > --
> > Cordially,
> >
> > W.G. Ryan MVP
> > Windows - Embedded
> > http://www.msmvps.com/WilliamRyan/
> > dotnetguru at comcast dot net
> > wgryan at mvps dot org
> > bill at devbuzz dot com
> > www.devbuzz.com
> > www.knowdotnet.com
> >
> >
>
>

"William Ryan eMVP" <bill@NoSp4m.devbuzz.com> wrote in message
news:u0zjblgFEHA.1180@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>
> We currently have a fairly large project (roughly 80,000 lines of code) and
> on some of our slower development machines, the developers are noticing that
> hitting the enter key two or three times causes the IDE to hang for about 3
> seconds. All in all it's slowing down. I have a really fast machine so I'm
> not seeing it, but when I look at their machines, it's defintiely notable.
> We've unhooked all add-ins and verified that there isn't anything running in
> the background that's causing this (we've stopped each process the machine
> runs other than the bare minimum) and it's still happening.
>
> Anyway, I've heard a few people mention that it's the IDE's 'background
> compile' that's causing this and it isn't unusual. Does anyone know 1) Is
> there really a background compile? 2) Is it in C# too if it exists? 3) can
> it be shut down? 4) Will compiling a lot of the classes into libraries and
> adding them as .dlls/references alleviate any of this?
>
> The other guys in the department are pretty sure that this is the problem
> and we're thinking of moving most of the stuff to dll's but I just wanted to
> make sure this will do something before we go ahead with it. It will entail
> a fair amount of work.
>
> If not, has anyone had a similar problem? It's also noteworthy that not all
> programs we work with are slow, it's only this one which happens to be the
> largest.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
> --
> Cordially,
>
> W.G. Ryan MVP
> Windows - Embedded
> http://www.msmvps.com/WilliamRyan/
> dotnetguru at comcast dot net
> wgryan at mvps dot org
> bill at devbuzz dot com
> www.devbuzz.com
> www.knowdotnet.com
>
>