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  • Troubleshooting "Visual Studio 2008 Design view hangs" issues

    Over the last few months we've collected information on various issues related to design view not working in Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Web Developer Express 2008. Here is list of known issues and possible solutions: Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component fails to install. 1. Pre-release Office 2007 components are installed. Most often it was XPS Add-in for Office 2007. 2. Expired trial version of Office 2007 is installed. 3. Some Office components are installed, but are not visible in Control Panel. Solution: uninstall offending component. You can verify if Office is RTM by checking version of MSO.DLL in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12 . Right click on MSO.DLL and choose Properties -> Details...
  • Anti-virus programs can affect VS build performance

    We have had complaints from some customers saying that their Web Project build performance with VS is very slow and it turns out that for some of the complaints the actual issue was anti-virus programs running on their machines. So, how do anti-virus programs affect VS build? Please take a look at the following snippet from ScottGu's blog to understand why! Watch out for Virus Checkers, Spy-Bots, and Search/Indexing Tools VS hits the file-system a lot, and obviously needs to reparse any file within a project that has changed the next time it compiles. One issue I've seen reported several times are cases where virus scanners, spy-bot detecters, and/or desktop search indexing tools end up monitoring a directory containing a project a little...
  • Public alias to report performance issues with VWD 2008

    As a part of creating a way for customers to directly communicate with the product team and get help if they are running into performance issues in Visual Web Developer 2008 or web-related features in Visual Studio 2008, the product team has created a public alias to report all performance related concerns about the product. The alias is vwdperf-at-microsoft-dot-com . Your performance issue can be a major blocker that prevents you from working with the app or a pet peeve that has annoyed you. You are also welcome to send in suggestions for performance enhancements in future releases. Now is a great time to send in your feedback. We are actively looking into addressing performance issues in the next release, and timely feedback will help us a...
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