Is your Visual Studio 2005 SLOW to load?

Bill Jones Jr. — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 13:31:00 GMT

Our data layer project has the usual hundreds of generated files. Several months ago that was no issue, but over the last month or so things began to get slower and slower. My first attempt to get back to reasonable performance was to break the data project out of my main solution. For the last few weeks even the separate project was hard to work with. I turned off Ankh, the Subversion add-in for Visual Studio. That seemed to help a bit. I even tried turning off Norton when loading the project but was still faced with load times of 5 to 7 minutes. Performance didn’t get any better after the project was loaded. Simple click and traverse operations were painfully SLOW.

So I called for help. After trying all the Google suggestions to no avail, I emailed the Charlotte Radiology development team. Matt Duffield came through. He suggested selecting Tools / Import and Export Settings … / Reset All Settings. We’re using Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite, but I would expect this fix to work most editions of the IDE.

Matt reports that he has to perform this operation every so often to keep the performance up on the IDE. We haven’t seen any side effects, but then Matt and I both favor the standard settings. It does NOT affect our add-ins.

So how much did it help? My data project was taking well over 6 minutes to load. After the fix it loads in 15 seconds. “We report, you decide.”

Bill J

SQL Server 2K and decimal variables

Bill Jones Jr. — Sun, 01 May 2005 21:40:00 GMT

What I think I saw - So there I was happily loading a DECLAREd variable with a SELECT statement in a SQL Server SProc. The variable was declared like this:

DECLARE @myVar decimal

The value I was retrieving was decimal - precision 19.2 - but what I got in my decimal variable was integer. So I changed to a more specific definition like:

DECLARE @myVar decimal(19,2)

And then got what I expected, a decimal value. So I’m guessing the “decimal” declaration must default to something like “decimal(19,0)”.

Who knew?

Bill J

Charlotte NC

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Is your Visual Studio 2005 SLOW to load?

SQL Server 2K and decimal variables