Tuesday, October 19, 2010

A Visual Guide to speeding up Visual Studio 2008/2010

Daniel Fisher - Ultimate Guide to speed up Visual Studio

“I believe that better tools lead to better results. That’s why I care about my tools performance a lot!

Recently I had a conversation with Peter Kirchner and Kay Giza on how to speed up Visual Studio. Specifically by configuring you Anti-Virus software. But beside that there are loads of things that you can do.

So I decided to share the tweaks on environment:

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I think I’d really rather get a faster notebook and leave some of these options on, but sometimes we just don’t have the option (Santa, please bring me an uber notebook for Christmas…please?). This post also looks outside the VS box, i.e. and your antivirus and Search, which is something that’s easy to forget.

Other standard performance things come to mind too. Defrag, add RAM if you can, faster HD (HD speed is supposed to make a HUGE difference for VS), tone down Win7 Visual settings, etc.

(via The Morning Brew - The Morning Brew #710)

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