visual studio

VS2010 Performance

kellyb — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:04:45 GMT

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:

VS2010 bad performance, scroll is extremely slow

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

Cleaning up after a rough week with Oracle

kellyb — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:18:48 GMT

I had a pretty rough week attempting to get the Oracle client installed on my Windows 7 – 64bit machine. I’m going resist the temptation to throw stones, but let’s just say it was a frustrating week.

Today I went to the Server Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 to do some work with the ADO.NET Entity Framework. When attempting to connect the designer to my local SQL Server, I immediately received this

An unexpected error occurred in the Oracle Data Provider for .NET. Please contact the provider vendor to resolve this problem.

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Even though I’ve uninstalled every trace of Oracle from my machine from the Add/Remove Programs dialog, Oracle seems to have failed to cleanup after itself and it’s still left some damaging residue in my registry.

It took a while and some googling to figure this out, but the solution is to find all occurrences of the following GUID in your Windows registry and delete each one. I found about 25 of these. After deleting them all and restarting Visual Studio, it looks like I’m back in business.

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Missing Status Bar in Visual Studio?

kellyb — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:14:31 GMT

From time to time, my status bar disappears. I used to believe this was due to a botched install or add-in. I recently upgraded to Team System Test Edition, and my status bar again disappeared. For the last few weeks I’ve been trying to figure out a time to do a full reinstall.

Today, I discovered this is a setting in Visual Studio (duh). So, if you see this:

and you can’t figure out how to get your status bar back, go to Tools –> Options –> Environment –> General section and check the “Show status bar” checkbox:

And you’ll have your status bar back: