Stability of VS2008 Comparted to VS2005 SP1

[Aaron Smith]

Is VS2008 more stable than VS2005 SP1 on large VB projects? We get out of
memory exceptions and strange errors throughout the day in 2005 and it's
getting annoying. We are all running Vista x64 with 4 gig of ram (quad core
processors) and it runs fast and smooth, but every once in a while it just
slows down and eventually crashes.

We have SP1 with the Vista Update for VS2005 and also SP1 for Vista
installed.

 

[RobinS]

Is VS2008 more stable than VS2005 SP1 on large VB projects? We get out of
memory exceptions and strange errors throughout the day in 2005 and it's
getting annoying. We are all running Vista x64 with 4 gig of ram (quad
core processors) and it runs fast and smooth, but every once in a while it
just slows down and eventually crashes.

We have SP1 with the Vista Update for VS2005 and also SP1 for Vista
installed.

We're using VS2008, but I don't know how you define "large". We have
multiple projects with dozens of classes and forms and user controls, and
aren't having any trouble with VS2008.

However, you should nkow that edit-and-continue doesn't work with VS2008 on
64-bit Vista. Here's a post from the vsnet.ide group from Wen Yuan Wang
(MSFT):

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I'm indeed sorry to hear you have such experience on 64-bit windows. But,
unfortunately, we cannot provide Edit and Continue on 64bit windows so far
(even though using VS 2008). Maybe it would be added into next version of
Visual Studio...

However, you can use E&C against the 32 bit CLR on x64 machine. But, if you
try to do this on 64 bit CLR, VS will prompt a dialog tell you edit are not
allowed. We are indeed sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

For more information, you may refer to Steve's blog on MSDN website.
http://blogs.msdn.com/stevejs/archive/2005/11/15/493018.aspx
[Edit and Continue on 64 bit Windows]

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