Visual Studio 2005 Hotfix Available

I’m reposting a comment from Cameron McCall on behalf of Chris Mayo regarding a hotfix that is now available for Visual Studio 2005. We’ve been having some problems with Akismet identifying Cameron and Chris’ comments as spam. I’m looking into making sure that doesn’t happen anymore, but for now, here you go!

I’m sending this on behalf of my Program Manager:

We’ve received feedback, both directly from developers and in the forums, regarding slow performance of the Visual Basic 2005 IDE in certain situations (larger projects, projects with many errors, etc.).

I’m sorry that these issues made it to production and degraded the performance of the IDE. The Visual Basic Performance team is working hard to address these issues via hotfixes and the upcoming Visual Basic 2005 SP1 while we work on engineering changes to make sure that issues such as these never make it into a shipping product in the future.

Based on this feedback and forum posts, we’ve been working with customers to address these performance issues. We recently released a performance hotfix to address the following areas of Visual Basic 2005 performance:

1. Improves the performance of single-stepping (F10) debugging.
2. Improves the performance of Task/Error List Refresh.
3. Improves the performance of Intellisense.

You can learn more about this hotfix in the KB 920805 article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920805/en-us). In order to get this hotfix, you need to contact support and reference KB 920805. Details on contacting support can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support.

Note that this hotfix rolls up all peformance hotfixes to date, so installing this hotfix will give you the best IDE performance.

Again, we appreciate your feedback and we thank you for your patience while we address these issues. Please contact vbperf@microsoft.com if you continue to see issues after applying this hotfix.

Thanks,
Chris Mayo
Visual Basic Performance Program Manager