"Bill foust" wrote:

> I am looking for a way to disable the background compiler in VB.NET projects.
> We can disable it for the entire machine if need be, but I can't find an
> option to do it.
>
> Visual Studio just can't handle projects or solutions with large number of
> files well at all. By large, I mean > 200 files. At 100 files the IDE gets
> sluggish. at 200 it becomes so sluggish that is unsusable for every-day
> editing. At 500 it gets so sluggish that is essentially unusable at all and
> at 1000 files it gets downright unstable and we experience crashes in the VB
> language package or the IDE itself crashes.
>
> I hit this issue every single day. I belive the root cause of these problems
> is the background VB Compiler and I would like to at least try turning it
> off. Yeah, the blue-squiggly lines are nice, but when it takes 10 minutes to
> disappear after its been fixed, then the value is greatly diminished.
>
> I tease my boss that I'm about ready to return to Emacs, GCC and linux.. LOL.
>
> Bill