The FTP In Copy Web Site is Slow!

Although Visual Web Developer 2008 makes it convenient to connect to a remote site, doing so with the built-in FTP client is a pain in the butt. There's something wrong with the VS-embedded module that handles FTP transfers. Am I the only one seeing slow screen painting and refresh in this client app? It's like everything is working at quarter speed on a single thread. It comes to a dead stop for no reason.

It's unfortunate to see such a poor implementation dragging down a fine developer tool. It's not like FTP is new technology. My ancient version of WS_FTP is far more efficient than the transfer software in VWD 2008.

The Copy Web Site/FTP feature deserves a hotfix, and if that's not possible, I hope Microsoft can address it in the first Visual Studio 2008/Visual Web Developer service pack.

Published 02 January 2008 10:11 AM by Ken Cox [MVP]
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# John S. said on 02 January, 2008 01:32 PM

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Best. Add-in. Ever.

# The FTP In Copy Web Site is Slow! - WebLog of Ken Cox said on 02 January, 2008 01:33 PM

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# Joel Barsotti said on 02 January, 2008 03:10 PM

This has been such a huge beef for me over the years. I had the same problems with VS2005.

I pray someone at MS fixes this.

# Mark Wisecarver said on 12 January, 2008 07:16 PM

Yup, same slowness in VS 2005 and 2008.

I've been using DreamWeaver MX 2004 to sync files once VS creates them.

I'd love to see that sort of synchronization system in VS.

# Jay McLain said on 24 April, 2008 01:29 PM

Yup...I just started trying to use this feature in VS 2008 and it's painfully slow -- to the point it's useless.

It's not just you. (sigh)

# Joakim Westin said on 28 April, 2008 08:01 AM

I also feel that the FTP support in Visual Studio is almost useless. Can't save passwords, don't support SFTP and as many have said, it is slow.

Hopefully Microsoft fixes this.

# Anonymous said on 27 May, 2008 10:35 PM

Yes, Visual Studio FTP really sucks. It really cripples developers, and is surprising since the rest of the IDE is fabulous.

# Gerry Rohling said on 16 July, 2008 06:45 AM

The FTP support is worse than useless as it would be better if it did not even exist - reducing the support headache that comes when people try to use it and it hangs or crawls along at excruciatingly slow speeds.

# Martin said on 31 August, 2008 09:42 PM

Completely useless. I would like an explination from Micrsoft as to why they are not bothering to fix this problem. This has been a problem for many years, I have been using dreamweaver because of that but now i am looking at WVD again and am surprised to see the same problems still exist. UNBELIEVABLE that they have repackaged the software for webdevelopers and the flaming thing doesnot even connect. ALWAYS HANGS. What do you say Microsoft Buggy software goes on forever.

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