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Sure it looks all pretty, but have they made it faster and more reliable?

VS2010 is just damn slow and falls over on me at least 2-3 times a day which is not acceptable. When you pay for 25 VS2010 premium licenses with MSDN on top of your gold partner allowance, you expect it to work.

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VS2010 is just damn slow and falls over on me at least 2-3 times a day which is not acceptable.

Non-aggressive suggestion: think you've got something screwy with your system, I've had VS Fall over on my 2-3 times in the last several years of heavy use. It doesn't have to be that unstable. Also, with an SSD and enough RAM, I don't feel like I'm ever waiting on VS anymore.

I'd second that. In the past five years (or at least since VS 2008), I can remember VS crashing on me maybe half a dozen times. That's with spending most of my time working on pretty large multi language projects.

For context, I don't use any extensions other than (sometimes) ReSharper and Tortoise svn/git/hg.

Mine doesn't crash on Web projects, but can't work for a couple of hours on a Windows Phone 7 project without it going boom.

I think most of it works fine and dandy, but some parts can be quite sensitive.

Fair enough, I haven't worked on any Windows Phone 7 stuff yet, so it may be fatally brittle there.

I've dumped all extensions - I had R# and VisualSVN.

The solution does have about 80,000 files though.

Maybe VS crashing is the symptom, and you should look for the cause around the fact that your solution has 80,000 files within it?

I do C++ work. VS2010 is so slow and crashes so often for me that I abandoned it (and, sadly, its limited C++0x support) for VS2008. This is on a Core2Duo, 8G RAM, a hybrid hard drive, and accelerated graphics.

I was pretty happy with VS2008 until the other day, when I found that I can reliably crash it by opening a particular XML file. sigh

Speed is fine here and I generally enjoy working with VS 10 when I'm on Windows (showing errors while typing is a fantastic feature which I haven's seen for c++ before VS10). But my annoying VS 10 bug is that approximately once per week it simply refuses rebuilding a changed c++ file until I clean and rebuild the whole project. It just continues using the old object file despite having c++ files with a newer date - and what makes this really annoying is that this is a bug you certainly only notice after a while when results just stop making sense. Others in the project have the same trouble - maybe we messed up some setting, but we haven't found any setting yet about simply ignoring source-changes...

Try adding a semicolon in your source files immediately after your includes:

#include "stdio.h" #include "system.h"

;

int StartOfYourCPPCode() {

There's a long-standing bug with pre-compiled headers and code regeneration that (apparently) Microsoft has never fixed. There were (still are?) so many obscure issues with PCH that I just disabled it altogether.

Thanks. We also had suspected pre-compiled headers and also just disabled them completely, but unfortunately that wasn't it. I'll try adding a semicolon next time it happens to check if that changes something.

I blame XAML, and I'm justified. Some of my teammates here have changed Visual Studio to open XAML files with the XML editor, which means * Visual Studio no longer crashes all the time, and * they lose all XAML intellisense.

I choose to keep the XAML editor for its usefulness, but I run Task Manager (well, Process Explorer) open in the tray at all times to monitor my CPU. If your CPU spikes while you're doing nothing, it's a good sign that Visual Studio may crash.

And as everyone else says, it's rock-solid while doing web development or anything not involving XAML.

Do you use a lot of extensions? I have it crash about that much as well. I wonder if we compared extensions if we could pin point which one is causes the crashes.

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