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Published on 28 Aug 2008 from Scott Dorman
There are always a lot of posts about various add-ins, code snippets, macros, and other utilities that are designed to make you, the developer, more productive within Visual Studio as an editing environment. However, there seem to very few posts that talk about how to actually improve the performance of Visual Studio itself.
Browsing through some of the questions on Stack Overflow, I came across a thread asking this very question. There were a lot of non-answers, but one that definitively listed some settings that you can change which will help speed up Visual Studio. These changes are all available from the Options dialog (Tools –> Options):
- Environment
- General:
- Disable “Animate environment tools”
- Documents:
- Disable “Detect when file is changed outside the environment”
- Keyboard:
- Remove the F1 key from the Help.F1Help command
- Help\Online:
- Set “When loading Help content” to “Try local first, then online” or “Try local only, not online”
- Startup:
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Projects and Solutions
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Text Editor
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Windows Forms Designer
There is also one change that isn’t part of the Options dialog. If you have any code file that can be viewed in either a visual editor (like the Windows Forms editor) or a code editor, you can change the default editor by right clicking on the file and choosing the “Open With…” menu option. Select the program you want to use to open the file and click the “Set as Default” button. For example, doing this on a CSharp file (*.cs) and choosing the “CSharp Editor” as the default causes all code files (even classes that inherit from a visual element like Form) to open in the code editor not the designer. Don’t choose the editors that are listed as “with Encoding” as this will ask you for the encoding each time you open the file.
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Published on 28 Aug 2008 from Scott Dorman
Just a reminder that the Tampa Bay IASA August meeting is tonight starting at 6:30 PM.
Web Service Software Factory Modeling Edition
The Web Service Software Factory (WSSF) Modeling Edition focuses on building the server side of a web services infrastructure, using either ASMX or WCF services. The new release uses three Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) to model services: service contract, data contract and host models. Through use of these DSLs, WSSF helps developers construct a scalable, extensible web service framework from the service interfaces to the translation of domain data into business entities, and back! This session will get you jump-started in building your own services infrastructure using the WSSF from Microsoft Patterns & Practices group.
Speaker: Stan Schultes is a Sarasota, FL – based developer/architect, author, and a regular speaker at regional developer events. He’s a Microsoft MVP in Visual Basic and a former Contributing Editor and columnist to Visual Studio Magazine. Stan has presented over a dozen MSDN webcasts, showed the WCF/WF developer demos at the Visual Studio 2008 Launch Event in Tampa, and the Team System demos at the Visual Studio 2005 Launch Event in Orlando. He’s currently developing a suite of web services and design tools in an engineering-driven custom product design environment. Visit http://www.vbnetexpert.com for presentation slide decks, webcast and technical links, blog, and other developer information.
When & Where:
Thursday, August 28, 2008 from 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM (ET)
Kforce Corporate Headquarters
1001 East Palm Avenue
Tampa, FL 33605
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Please be aware that the location has changed from the Microsoft office to Kforce. The Kforce office is near Ybor City, so make sure to allow some extra time for traffic.
Please be sure to register so we have an idea of how many pizzas to order.
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