Visual Studio 2005 VB virtually locks up after edit
I am on the 3rd upgrade to .NET of 10 vb6 applications. Using VS2005 Professional. The first two upgrades did not have this issue. This third application is a bit larger than the first 2. Its current state is just after the upgrade wizard. We are using VSS but when I make a local copy of the project and permanently disconnect from VSS the same issue happens. I am using a Dell Dimension 4550 with 1Gig Ram and a 2.4 MHz CPU.
Issue:
After editing a line of source code, the hourglass cursor appears and the source code editor is busy and I cannot make more edits for about 10 seconds. The Class Name and Method Name combo boxes are empty and eventually change to the proper text. The Error list flutters as it updates, a few seconds after it refreshes the Name combo box text appears. This all takes about 10 seconds and I cannot really edit during that time.
Is there a way to turn off the background processing after editing a line? So I could make a bunch of edits then just click the build button which should populate the Error List. Is there some other workaround? Please help, Orion
EDIT:I am moving the forms one at a time to a temporary (surrogate) project that does not have this issue and editing them there, mostly RDO and Listview upgrade issues ... then moving the fixed up forms back to the slow project. Hopefully when the number of errors is reduced, this will make the lockup issue better. I do require the intellisense and the inline error checking is nice. I still have 10 applications to go so a solution to this lockup issue would be appreciated.
EDIT2: I removed all of the errors and it still was laggy. Then the tasks window came up serendipitouslyand there were over 2000 tasks from the upgrade. So I removed the task labels from the options and that helped a lot. I can edit now but there is still some time lag after a line edit. Are there any suggestions on things to turn off so I can edit more freely?
