Saturday, October 30, 2010

VisualStudio 2010 performance

Editor performance in VisualStudio on my machine is best described as dreadful - it's very rare to be working on an editor where you actually have to look up to see where the cursor has actually got to especially when touch typing - and yet in VS2010 you have to because it reacts so poorly.

There's a semblance of a fix which has worked for me by turning off the hardware acceleration (due to VS2010 being a WPF app). Tools -> Options -> General -> in the middle are a bunch of options for experience - turn them all off and see if you find that it speeds up.

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