Speed up Visual Studio 2005

Hi,

Find the below tricks/shortcuts to speed up working with Visual Studio 2005

http://dotnettipoftheday.org/tips/speedup_visual_studio.aspx

• Make sure Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is installed.

• Turn off animation.
• Tools | Options | Environment and uncheck Animate environment tools.
• Clearing this option causes auto-hidden windows to appear instantly when requested rather than slowly transitioning onto the screen.

• Disable Navigation Bar.
• Tools | Options | Text Editor | C# and uncheck Navigation bar.
• Instead of this option use CTRL-F12.

• Turn off Track Changes.
• Tools | Options | Text Editor and uncheck Track changes.
• This will reduce overhead and speeds up IDE response.

• Turn off Track Active item.
• Tools | Options | Projects and Solutions and uncheck Track Active Item in Solution Explorer
• When selected, Solution Explorer automatically opens the folder for the active item, scrolls to its node, and selects its name.
• This option is enabled by default.

• Turn off AutoToolboxPopulate.
• Tools | Options | Windows Forms Designer and then set AutoToolboxPopulate to False.
• There is an option in VS 2005 that will cause VS to automatically populate the toolbox with any controls you compile as part of your solution.
• This is a useful feature when developing controls since it updates them when you build, but it can cause VS to end up taking a long time in some circumstances. So its better to disable this option.

Thanks & Regards,

Arun Manglick || Tech Lead