VS 2010: What is the ++ file symbol on the status bar?

Question

I\'m trying to run VS 2010 in an XP VM on my Win 7 Pro development box.

It basically works, but when actually editing code in this environment, my ability to edit

Answer 1

The ++ is Intellisense.

The issue I was running into was the disk speed. It's incredibly disk I/O intensive, so you need to do everything you can to make the VM's disk I/O responsive, or turn off Intellisense (e.g. make sure the virtual disk is local, on a speedy drive (ssd!), maybe use a real drive instead of a virtual drive, etc.)