Visual Studio 2010: very slow web applications debugging!

Question

I recently installed Visual Studio 2010 (Ultimate edition, final version released in April), and found that debugging a web application bec

Answer 1

Taking another route of Paulius' answer (disabling "Native Code" debugger) I was able to speed up the debugging. Here are the steps I took for VS 2010 Pro:

1) Tools > Options > Debugging > General

2) Ticked Enable Just My Code (Managed Only)

3) Also this might help, unticking Enable address-level debugging

Answer 2

Deactivate the option Show Parameter Values in the callstack window (debug -> windows -> callstack -> left click).

It required lots of recursion.

Reference

Answer 3

I realized that ESET Internet Security also makes lots of performance issues while debugging in Visual Studio 2010 using ASP.NET Development Server.

Answer 4

I can get it faster by clear all break points, all unnecessary variable in Watch windows, and all the unnecessary debug windows, such as CallStack ...

Answer 5

I did find out what you have to do:

1. Disable Intellisense
2. Disable the Graphics Rendering Editor Function, this causes editor slowness with some graphics cards.
3. Disable the Sourcecontrol that is set by default to the Microsoft Server Product.

I just can tell you, that VS2010 is a very good product, if you know these few things, and setup this.

Answer 6

Recently I faced with the same problem. I noticed that I had too many messages (especially "A first chance exception ...") in the VS's Output window. I fixed those exceptions and everything went fine.