Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:16 PM
If you ever encountered any of the problems with Visual Studio 2008 listed below, you might want to apply the latest path to your VS 2008.
Bugs in HTML Source View performance
• In Visual Studio 2008, you have a page that contains an ActiveX control. The ActiveX control has more than two levels of subproperties. When you type inside the page, the source editor stops responding for several seconds.
• The View Code command in Visual Studio 2008 is not available for a long time.
• When you open large HTML documents in Visual Studio 2008, performance is slow.
• When you work with large HTML files by using Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio does not respond.
• When you press TAB or SHIFT+TAB to indent or to un-indent a large amount of code that you have selected in Visual Studio 2008, performance is slow.
Bug in Design view performance
• When Design view is configured by using certain page markup in Visual Studio 2008, performance is slow when you type inside Design view.
Bugs in HTML editing
- Quotation marks (") are not inserted after the Class attribute or after the CssClass attribute even though the Insert attribute value quotes when typing option is enabled.
- When the ServiceReference element points to the current Web page, Visual Studio 2008 crashes.
Bugs in JavaScript editing
• When you open a JavaScript file, the colorization of the client script is delayed several seconds.
• When IntelliSense encounters a property that has an empty string, JavaScript IntelliSense does not work.
Bugs in Web site building performance
• The Bin folder of a project contains many assemblies and .refresh files. When you build the project in Visual Studio 2008, performance is slow.
The patch can be downloaded for free at here
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=10826
I would highly recommend install this latest patch. The performance issues related to HTML editing and JavaScript editing can be really annoying sometimes.