Visual Studio 2008 – Hot-Fix (KB946581) for HTML Editor / Web Designer slow performance problems

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Visual Studio 2008 – Hot-Fix (KB946581) for HTML Editor / Web Designer slow performance problems

February 14, 2008 by decoding

Currently Visual Studio 2008 has some serious performance problems with ASP.NET Web Projects.

The problems occur while using the HTML Source Editor or the Web Designer as the IDE becomes unresponsive for a few seconds.

A couple of days ago, the VS team has released a patch to fix these problems.
You can find the hot-fix details here, and download the patch here (2.6 MB).

In my case, even after installing the patch, the problems still exist.

Looking forward for the SP1 release…

Posted in Microsoft, Software | Tagged ASP.NET, Visual Studio 2008 | 9 Comments

9 Responses

on February 14, 2008 at 11:34 | Reply Hendrik

I also downloaded the patch, but no improvement!
on February 15, 2008 at 8:38 | Reply Billy the Kid

Yup patch didn’t work for me either. Currently thinking of moving back to VS 2005 until the problem is fixed.
on March 1, 2008 at 2:45 | Reply Humberto Martinez

That makes two of us, i’ve been going nuts with this.
on April 21, 2008 at 20:11 | Reply Johan

I hoped that VS 2008 make things better… instead it is worse. Shame on Microsoft! This is a total disaster.
on November 20, 2008 at 4:02 | Reply Raj

Hi folks

I had everything working correctly until I decided to install IE7. To fix it I uninstalled IE7 and yet it wouldn’t work properly.

What I figured out though is that if you run the project once and then try editing it behaves correctly. This behaviour has been consistent past couple of days.

Basically the solution is to run the project as soon as you open it.

Hope it works for you guys. I spent 4 hrs trying to fix this issue and was repenting why I bothered installing IE7.

Regards

Raj
on April 16, 2009 at 7:41 | Reply Stuart Clouston

After applying the hotfix, the service pack, the tweaks, etc my VS2008 still ran like a snail in design mode.
I found that the solution in my case was that my VS2008 user profile had been created before VS2008 SP1 was installed and I had selected “General Development” settings at first startup. I created a second computer account AFTER VS2008 SP1 was applied and this time selected “Web Development” settings on first startup and it performs at an acceptable speed under this login.
on June 30, 2009 at 11:58 | Reply JJ

Anyone from MVP following this?
on August 26, 2009 at 1:23 | Reply mario

this kind of help me (now it’s not fast, but it got little better)

http://blog.crowe.co.nz/archive/2006/04/06/607.aspx

Mario
sistec_de_juarez@hotmail.com
on November 13, 2009 at 12:01 | Reply Yves

Hello,

I have just solved my performance problems with the VS2008 designer.

I did a search on my hard disk for the file “fpcutl.dll” and found it into the following folders with the following versions:

- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11, version 11.0.8170.0

- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Web Designer Tools\VWD, version 12.0.6319.5000

I simply replaced the file in OFFICE11 folder by the file from the VWD folder, so that both files now have the version 12.0.6319.5000. After restarting it, I noticed a huge improvement in VS2008 designer performance.

For your info, I have Office 2007, FrontPage 2003 and all versions of Visual Studio (except 2010) installed on my machine

Hope it helps!

Yves