My team immediately started using Visual Studio 2010 after it’s release in April. We were waiting early for Silverlight 4 which was a component of the release, so we switched IDE’s right away. I like the feature set very much, but the performance is subpar and plain awful in some areas. I am running Resharper 5.1 EAP (nightly builds). 5.0 had a number of issues and several performance problems. I upgraded to 5.1 after reading this thread on JetBrain’s forum.
It’s hard to tell whether the performance issues are caused by the core IDE or Resharper, but there seems to be reports of performance issues in both. Here some interesting posts on issues related to the core IDE:
It’s going to be awhile for these wrinkles to get ironed out. My team is all-in, and patiently awaiting fixes and work around’s. On promising lead on was posted on the previously mentioned JetBrains forum thread:
It basically states that clearing out the following VS options greatly improves scrolling performance:
I’ll give this a shot for a while and see if it improves things