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…
I also downloaded the patch, but no improvement!
Yup patch didn’t work for me either. Currently thinking of moving back to VS 2005 until the problem is fixed.
That makes two of us, i’ve been going nuts with this.
I hoped that VS 2008 make things better… instead it is worse. Shame on Microsoft! This is a total disaster.
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
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.
Anyone from MVP following this?
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
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
Yves, your solution seems to have fixed my problem, or at least made it bearable. But how did you figure out to do this? I’ve looked at many possible solutions on the web but nothing worked but this.
Thanks,
Jim
The solution worked thanks Yves very much
This VS2008 is a total disaster. I initially thought 2005 was slow but this takes the biscuit. I had to wait a full half hour to get a response from it the other day on a decent spec machine when using the web editor. Do the bods at Microsoft even test their software before release?
Hello, I was able to fix the problem using a variant of the suggestions mentioned on this page,
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mikhailarkhipov/archive/2007/12/14/compatibility-problem-between-vs-2008-and-office-2000-and-how-to-fix-it.aspx.
I didn’t currently have anything in my path variable referring to either the office or the Designer tools folder. So, I added this to the path variable sorta near the beginning.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Web Designer Tools\VWD;
I guess this helps visual studio to find the right version of fpcutl.dll. Now the designer is snappy; before it wouldn’t even load. By the way I’m using VS2008, XP, and Office 2007. I also installed SharePoint designer 2010.