5 simple steps to improve speed of your old VS 2008 bro
- Install Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. Download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBEE1648-7106-44A7-9649-6D9F6D58056E&displaylang=en
- Remove unnecessary imported namespaces via “Project Properties”, “References tab”. Such imports significantly slow down the IDE.
- Change your project compilation to x86 only, if you don’t need x64. This will improve compilation speed. “Project Properties”, “Compile” tab, “Advanced Compile Options”.
- Install .NET Framework updates via Windows Update.
- Defragment your hard disk.
These four simple steps will make your Visual Studio 2008 fly!
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If you are using visual studio and you are working on mobile development then “platformverification” will slow down the visual studio compile and build time… recently vs2008 became 5x slower a small Tweak by making platformverification to false solved the problem