Extremly Slow Performance in VS2005 B2!!
I have two different systems that I installed VS2005 Beta 2 on.
The main development machine is a P4 with a gig of ram, and plenty of disk space. The OS is XP Pro (SP2).
I am trying to develop an app using Pocket PC 2003 (for right now), but the design process takes so long its almost not even worth trying!
I place a grid control on the form, add a query, and then have it generate the data forms (Summary View & Edit Detail) and it takes almost 10 minutes to generate the screens.
When I go to run the application in debug mode it takes almost 5 minutes to render the device emulator and deploy the app to the device emulator.
I read a post here that suggested deleting some PRF files that may have been left by previous versions of VS .Net, however this had no effect, and for that matter I installed it on a clean P3 800mhz machine with XP Pro (sp2) with nothing else on it, and it was exactly the same.
This cannot possibly be what we can expect on release!!
I have to admit I am going into .NET kicking and screaming because I am so used to doing things in VB6, but this is ridiculous.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem?
This is making me want to stick with VB6!
Could you provide a bit more information on your problem?
- Have you installed the DMA transport patch?
- Does it take a long time every time you hit Debug or is it only the first time? The first time, we'll have to deploy SQLMobile to the device.
- Are you closing the emulator everytime? Try using saved states and tell me whether the performance is still bad.
I have almost the exact same machine configuration that you do and with VS 2005 Beta 2 installed, I can assure you that deploy does not take 5 minutes 
Thanks,
Sriram Krishnan
PM, Visual Studio for Devices
Gary,
I feel your pain when it comes to some of the data design features you're playing with. It's pretty unpleasant in Beta 2, even on a fast machine.
We have done quite a bit of work in this area after Beta 2. In particular, generate data forms is now on the order of seconds instead of multiple minutes. As well, data binding code is very slow in Beta 2, particularly in the emulator. We have made improvements both in the emulator and on the .NET CF side here as well in builds after Beta 2.
I know it's not much help for you right now, but we do realize this is a problem and did a ton of work to make it better for our final release. Thanks for trying all this out and reporting the problems!
Neil
