Debugging slow - until you move the mouse!
I have a very very large solution in VS2005 (running on XP Pro). I never had problems debugging it when I was in VS 2003, but after I upgraded to VS2005, I found that debugging was extraordinarily slow. Even stepping over a simple assignment statement (x = 1;) could take 10 seconds or more! My colleagues were experiencing the same problems.
Then, totally by accident, one of my colleagues noticed that when he bumped his mouse, the execution step suddenly returned! We all tried on our computers, and lo and behold! - when we moved our mice, we could debug at a normal speed!
So now we've gotten used to it, but our office presents the uninformed visitor with the absurd spectacle of a bunch of programmers debugging code by hitting F10/F11 with their left hands, while continuously wiggling their mice with their right hands!
Anyone at MS got an explanation for this, that they can present without blushing RGB(255,0,0)?
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Shaul
