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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.

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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

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