If you are using the Visual Studio 2008 at the most of time, surely you hate it. Linq, Linq2Sql, new intellsense and other features are amazing but it freezes most of typing codes.

I have contacted with Scott Guthrie and Mikhail Arkhipov about that and Mikhail mentioned me about a fix. He said, this fix will be available as soon as at the Microsoft Download site and not released now then sent it to me. I have trying to fix some issues with this fix. If I can get a result, I will share it here.

Here is the release notes about this hotfix.

 Source view performance 

1.       Source editor freezes for a few seconds when typing in a page with custom control that expose long list of properties.

NOTE: In order to improve editor responsiveness, display of custom control child properties in the Properties Window is limited to 2 levels (similar to VS 2005). For example, imagine that control A has child element B which has child element C, it is possible to either use child elements like <a><b><c><d><e>Value</e></d></c></b></a> or specify <a b-c-d-e=”Value” />. Properties window will no longer be showing b-c-d-e property. However, the property will still be visible in the intellisense (statement completion) window. We will be looking for a better solution in VS 10 time frame.

2.       “View Code” command is not available for a long time.

3.       Visual Studio is not responding when working with big HTML files.

4.       Very slow behavior when opening large HTML documents.

5.       Tab/Shift-Tab (Indent/Unindent) operation is slow with large selection

NOTE: Improvement is about 2x, but operation may still be slow with larger selections. Unfortunately, complete solution is not possible due to architectural limitations of the core text editor. We will be looking for a better solution in VS 10 time frame.

Design view performance 

1.       Typing in Design view is slow

HTML editing

1.       Quotes are not inserted after Class or CssClass attribute even when the option is enabled.

2.       Visual Studio crashes when ServiceReference element points to the current web page

JScript editing 

1.       When opening script file, colorization is not available for a few seconds

2.       JScript intellisense broken if an empty string property is encountered

Build performance 

1.       Build is very slow when Bin folder contains large number of assemblies and .refresh files.

You should know, if have performance issues with Visual Studio 2008, stay connected some communities. Fix will be published there.

Also you can follow a forum post at the asp.net forums about this issue.

Hope this helps,

Murat