.NET - Tuesday, November 6, 2007 10:53 - 0 Comments

Quick performance tip for VS 2005

As I’m sure we all know Visual Studio 2005 as great as it is isn’t the fastest application on the planet. The good news is there are a multitude of things we can change to speed it up. Now firstly let me just state that I’m not a fan of just linking to other people’s blogs or regurgitating their information however I have posted the links to Scott Guthrie’s blog below for reference.

The tip I wanted to add was a really quick and easy performance boost for Laptops. I guess you could also apply this to a desktop using the same logic. As you will see below having the OS on one hard drive and apps on another drive gives a huge performance increase in VS but what if your system is already setup? I had this issue with my laptop. The easy fix is to add a second drive to your laptop and move the OS paging file over to this drive. I also moved the SQL databases to this drive since that is easy enough. I noticed a remarkable improvement in visual studio performance and I didn’t have to go through the headache of moving source code, IIS settings or VSS settings. The paging file is the biggest one by far.

Scott’s Links for VS performance tuning:

Hard drive performance