We currently have a fairly large project (roughly 80,000 lines of code) and
on some of our slower development machines, the developers are noticing that
hitting the enter key two or three times causes the IDE to hang for about 3
seconds. All in all it's slowing down. I have a really fast machine so I'm
not seeing it, but when I look at their machines, it's defintiely notable.
We've unhooked all add-ins and verified that there isn't anything running in
the background that's causing this (we've stopped each process the machine
runs other than the bare minimum) and it's still happening.

Anyway, I've heard a few people mention that it's the IDE's 'background
compile' that's causing this and it isn't unusual. Does anyone know 1) Is
there really a background compile? 2) Is it in C# too if it exists? 3) can
it be shut down? 4) Will compiling a lot of the classes into libraries and
adding them as .dlls/references alleviate any of this?

The other guys in the department are pretty sure that this is the problem
and we're thinking of moving most of the stuff to dll's but I just wanted to
make sure this will do something before we go ahead with it. It will entail
a fair amount of work.

If not, has anyone had a similar problem? It's also noteworthy that not all
programs we work with are slow, it's only this one which happens to be the
largest.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Bill
--
Cordially,

W.G. Ryan MVP
Windows - Embedded
http://www.msmvps.com/WilliamRyan/
dotnetguru at comcast dot net
wgryan at mvps dot org
bill at devbuzz dot com
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hi Bill,

1) Yes
2) No
3) No
4) Yes



Bill.


"William Ryan eMVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> We currently have a fairly large project (roughly 80,000 lines of code) and
> on some of our slower development machines, the developers are noticing that
> hitting the enter key two or three times causes the IDE to hang for about 3
> seconds. All in all it's slowing down. I have a really fast machine so I'm
> not seeing it, but when I look at their machines, it's defintiely notable.
> We've unhooked all add-ins and verified that there isn't anything running in
> the background that's causing this (we've stopped each process the machine
> runs other than the bare minimum) and it's still happening.
>
> Anyway, I've heard a few people mention that it's the IDE's 'background
> compile' that's causing this and it isn't unusual. Does anyone know 1) Is
> there really a background compile? 2) Is it in C# too if it exists? 3) can
> it be shut down? 4) Will compiling a lot of the classes into libraries and
> adding them as .dlls/references alleviate any of this?
>
> The other guys in the department are pretty sure that this is the problem
> and we're thinking of moving most of the stuff to dll's but I just wanted to
> make sure this will do something before we go ahead with it. It will entail
> a fair amount of work.
>
> If not, has anyone had a similar problem? It's also noteworthy that not all
> programs we work with are slow, it's only this one which happens to be the
> largest.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
> --
> Cordially,
>
> W.G. Ryan MVP
> Windows - Embedded
> http://www.msmvps.com/WilliamRyan/
> dotnetguru at comcast dot net
> wgryan at mvps dot org
> bill at devbuzz dot com
> www.devbuzz.com
> www.knowdotnet.com
>
>

Many thanks Bill!
"Bill McCarthy <no spam>" <bill_mcc &#64; iprimus.com.au> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> hi Bill,
>
> 1) Yes
> 2) No
> 3) No
> 4) Yes
>
>
>
> Bill.
>
>
> "William Ryan eMVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> >
> > We currently have a fairly large project (roughly 80,000 lines of code)
and
> > on some of our slower development machines, the developers are noticing
that
> > hitting the enter key two or three times causes the IDE to hang for
about 3
> > seconds. All in all it's slowing down. I have a really fast machine so
I'm
> > not seeing it, but when I look at their machines, it's defintiely
notable.
> > We've unhooked all add-ins and verified that there isn't anything
running in
> > the background that's causing this (we've stopped each process the
machine
> > runs other than the bare minimum) and it's still happening.
> >
> > Anyway, I've heard a few people mention that it's the IDE's 'background
> > compile' that's causing this and it isn't unusual. Does anyone know 1)
Is
> > there really a background compile? 2) Is it in C# too if it exists? 3)
can
> > it be shut down? 4) Will compiling a lot of the classes into libraries
and
> > adding them as .dlls/references alleviate any of this?
> >
> > The other guys in the department are pretty sure that this is the
problem
> > and we're thinking of moving most of the stuff to dll's but I just
wanted to
> > make sure this will do something before we go ahead with it. It will
entail
> > a fair amount of work.
> >
> > If not, has anyone had a similar problem? It's also noteworthy that not
all
> > programs we work with are slow, it's only this one which happens to be
the
> > largest.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bill
> > --
> > Cordially,
> >
> > W.G. Ryan MVP
> > Windows - Embedded
> > http://www.msmvps.com/WilliamRyan/
> > dotnetguru at comcast dot net
> > wgryan at mvps dot org
> > bill at devbuzz dot com
> > www.devbuzz.com
> > www.knowdotnet.com
> >
> >
>
>