VB.Net Text Editor stalls when I try and declare a variable

[Desmond Cassidy]

Hi,
I don't know whether this is the correct place to ask this question..anyway
here goes...

I have a large solution with about 300 .vb files split into 9 projects
VB.net Framework 1.1 WinXP Pro

Whilst editing, as soon as I try and enter a statement like

Private strName as string

Then the VS.net stalls for about 30 seconds until the cursor is usable
again, devenv.exe (from viewing with the Task Manager) is eating up CPU
Time, Page Faulting like mad and I have loads of unused memory. I haven't a
clue what its doing...

However when I am in a piece of code (e.g. writing a function ) just writing
normal stuff then I don't have this problem.

Is it the size of the project and its trying to verify the variable, WIN XP
or perhaps a setting (option) that I have overlooked ???

ANy help/direction appreciated.

Cheers,

Desmond.

[Cor]

Hi Desmond,

Is it posible that you have on your import line things like system.mshmtl.
Have a look at those imports, it can be that one of those do this behaviour.
(mshtml will definitly do that).

I hope this helps,

Cor

"

[Desmond Cassidy]

Hi Cor...thanks for the quick reply....

I have 2 Imports....

One which Imports a project outside of the one I am working on (i.e. one of
the other 9) and that's a huge project (its the Kernel of the Project) and
another of a small piece of code...

"Cor" <no*@non.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Hi Desmond,

Is it posible that you have on your import line things like system.mshmtl.
Have a look at those imports, it can be that one of those do this behaviour. (mshtml will definitly do that).

I hope this helps,

Cor

"

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Desmond Cassidy" <De*************@T-Online.de> scripsit:

I don't know whether this is the correct place to ask this question..anyway
here goes...

I have a large solution with about 300 .vb files split into 9 projects
VB.net Framework 1.1 WinXP Pro

Whilst editing, as soon as I try and enter a statement like

Private strName as string

Then the VS.net stalls for about 30 seconds until the cursor is usable
again, devenv.exe (from viewing with the Task Manager) is eating up CPU
Time, Page Faulting like mad and I have loads of unused memory. I haven't a
clue what its doing...

However when I am in a piece of code (e.g. writing a function ) just writing
normal stuff then I don't have this problem.

Is it the size of the project and its trying to verify the variable, WIN XP
or perhaps a setting (option) that I have overlooked ???

I think this behavior may be caused by the background compiler. For
some reason, there is no way to turn it off...

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Desmond Cassidy]

So every time I change something it is verifying everything for teh WHOLE
soluton ??

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

* "Desmond Cassidy" <De*************@T-Online.de> scripsit:

I don't know whether this is the correct place to ask this question..anyway here goes...

I have a large solution with about 300 .vb files split into 9 projects
VB.net Framework 1.1 WinXP Pro

Whilst editing, as soon as I try and enter a statement like

Private strName as string

Then the VS.net stalls for about 30 seconds until the cursor is usable
again, devenv.exe (from viewing with the Task Manager) is eating up CPU
Time, Page Faulting like mad and I have loads of unused memory. I haven't a clue what its doing...

However when I am in a piece of code (e.g. writing a function ) just writing normal stuff then I don't have this problem.

Is it the size of the project and its trying to verify the variable, WIN XP or perhaps a setting (option) that I have overlooked ???

I think this behavior may be caused by the background compiler. For
some reason, there is no way to turn it off...

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[CJ Taylor]

I have the exact same problem... 350 files, 6 projects... Its irritating...

Does it take forever to load a form somteimtes as well?

"Desmond Cassidy" <De*************@T-Online.de> wrote in message
news:uj****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

So every time I change something it is verifying everything for teh WHOLE
soluton ??

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

* "Desmond Cassidy" <De*************@T-Online.de> scripsit:

I don't know whether this is the correct place to ask this question..anyway here goes...

I have a large solution with about 300 .vb files split into 9 projects
VB.net Framework 1.1 WinXP Pro

Whilst editing, as soon as I try and enter a statement like

Private strName as string

Then the VS.net stalls for about 30 seconds until the cursor is usable
again, devenv.exe (from viewing with the Task Manager) is eating up CPU Time, Page Faulting like mad and I have loads of unused memory. I haven't a clue what its doing...

However when I am in a piece of code (e.g. writing a function ) just writing normal stuff then I don't have this problem.

Is it the size of the project and its trying to verify the variable,

WIN

XP or perhaps a setting (option) that I have overlooked ???

I think this behavior may be caused by the background compiler. For
some reason, there is no way to turn it off...

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Desmond Cassidy]

Well CJ....I am lucky (hah) that I don't have forms...this is a black box
project...

Very surprised no reference is made to this activity in the Microsoft
site....????

"CJ Taylor" <no****@blowgoats.com> wrote in message
news:10*************@corp.supernews.com...

I have the exact same problem... 350 files, 6 projects... Its irritating...
Does it take forever to load a form somteimtes as well?

"Desmond Cassidy" <De*************@T-Online.de> wrote in message
news:uj****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

So every time I change something it is verifying everything for teh WHOLE

soluton ??

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

* "Desmond Cassidy" <De*************@T-Online.de> scripsit:
> I don't know whether this is the correct place to ask this

question..anyway

> here goes...
>
> I have a large solution with about 300 .vb files split into 9 projects > VB.net Framework 1.1 WinXP Pro
>
> Whilst editing, as soon as I try and enter a statement like
>
> Private strName as string
>
> Then the VS.net stalls for about 30 seconds until the cursor is usable > again, devenv.exe (from viewing with the Task Manager) is eating up

CPU > Time, Page Faulting like mad and I have loads of unused memory. I

haven't a

> clue what its doing...
>
> However when I am in a piece of code (e.g. writing a function ) just

writing

> normal stuff then I don't have this problem.
>
> Is it the size of the project and its trying to verify the variable,

WIN

XP

> or perhaps a setting (option) that I have overlooked ???

I think this behavior may be caused by the background compiler. For
some reason, there is no way to turn it off...

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Cor]

Hi Desmond,

Is it on the point

Dim a as ...................... Then it can be the import.

(It start searching all the posible types).

Cor

[Desmond Cassidy]

Actually its worse that that....

If I go up to where all the Private variables are declared and type a
carriage return then that's enough for it to stall....

"Cor" <no*@non.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Hi Desmond,

Is it on the point

Dim a as ...................... Then it can be the import.

(It start searching all the posible types).

Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Cor" <no*@non.com> scripsit:

Is it on the point

Dim a as ...................... Then it can be the import.

(It start searching all the posible types).

This may also be problematic if there are /lots/ of types defined in the
solution.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Desmond Cassidy" <De*************@T-Online.de> scripsit:

Very surprised no reference is made to this activity in the Microsoft
site....????

I am not sure where it is documented, but for very large projects,
currently performance in C# is much better because no checking is done
while typing code into the text editor window.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Desmond Cassidy" <De*************@T-Online.de> scripsit:

So every time I change something it is verifying everything for teh WHOLE
soluton ??

I am not sure if it's the whole solution, but the background compiler
will check for syntax errors and other problems with your source code
which can be very time consuming, even in large projects.

I am not sure if it will work, but you can try to split the solution up
into some solutions and reference DLLs directly from your EXE project.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Desmond Cassidy]

There are hundreds of types defined in this project....

We are using a lot of IInterfaces,,,,
"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:eu**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

* "Cor" <no*@non.com> scripsit:

Is it on the point

Dim a as ...................... Then it can be the import.

(It start searching all the posible types).

This may also be problematic if there are /lots/ of types defined in the
solution.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Desmond Cassidy]

You know Herfried....that was what I was going to do next....
I have all the other other 8 projects loaded into the solution.....whereas I
am only working on one project...

So I guess I should get rid of the other 8 projects and then just add 8 dll
references ???


"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:%2***************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

* "Desmond Cassidy" <De*************@T-Online.de> scripsit:

So every time I change something it is verifying everything for teh WHOLE soluton ??

I am not sure if it's the whole solution, but the background compiler
will check for syntax errors and other problems with your source code
which can be very time consuming, even in large projects.

I am not sure if it will work, but you can try to split the solution up
into some solutions and reference DLLs directly from your EXE project.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Desmond Cassidy]

Unfortunately... a bit late in the day to change to c#.....

Have you seen any reference made to this in the MS Site,.???
"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:OJ**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

* "Desmond Cassidy" <De*************@T-Online.de> scripsit:

Very surprised no reference is made to this activity in the Microsoft
site....????

I am not sure where it is documented, but for very large projects,
currently performance in C# is much better because no checking is done
while typing code into the text editor window.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Cor]

>

We are using a lot of IInterfaces,,,,

That is the trouble with MSHTML also

:-))

Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Desmond Cassidy" <De*************@T-Online.de> scripsit:

I have all the other other 8 projects loaded into the solution.....whereas I
am only working on one project...

So I guess I should get rid of the other 8 projects and then just add 8 dll
references ???

I have never played around with such a large VB.NET project :-().

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Desmond Cassidy]

Eh...correction.....

Add a reference to the projects 'referenced' so that its using the DLL
rather than the code....

"Desmond Cassidy" <De*************@T-Online.de> wrote in message
news:uR**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

You know Herfried....that was what I was going to do next....
I have all the other other 8 projects loaded into the solution.....whereas I am only working on one project...

So I guess I should get rid of the other 8 projects and then just add 8 dll references ???


"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:%2***************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

* "Desmond Cassidy" <De*************@T-Online.de> scripsit:

So every time I change something it is verifying everything for teh WHOLE soluton ??

I am not sure if it's the whole solution, but the background compiler
will check for syntax errors and other problems with your source code
which can be very time consuming, even in large projects.

I am not sure if it will work, but you can try to split the solution up
into some solutions and reference DLLs directly from your EXE project.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Urs Eichmann]

Desmond

I don't think your solution with 9 projects and 300 vb files is
generally too large to handle for VS. We have a VB.NET solution here
with 17 projects and currently 1248 .vb files in them. We used to have
huge IDE performance problems in VS.NET 2002, i.e. stalling for 1 minute
after entering a source code line. But the problems completely went away
when we switched to VS.NET 2003 - MSFT really did a good job on
improving their background compiler! We have no timelag whatsoever now
when editing code.

things to consider IMHO:
- low memory, for a large project you should have 768 MB RAM at least
- slow CPU, anything below a P IV is not suitable
- virus scanner active, disable it for the directories where you have
the project files
- perhaps to work files in the obj directories are corrupt? --> delete
all the obj directories, this already solved many problems for me
- you *are* working on your local harddisk and don't have your project
files on a network share, are you?

I would also consider checking with filemon (www.sysinternals.com) what
the compiler is doing, perhaps he writes working files to unexpected
places or so.

Desmond Cassidy wrote:

Hi,
I don't know whether this is the correct place to ask this question..anyway
here goes...

I have a large solution with about 300 .vb files split into 9 projects
VB.net Framework 1.1 WinXP Pro

Whilst editing, as soon as I try and enter a statement like

Private strName as string

Then the VS.net stalls for about 30 seconds until the cursor is usable
again, devenv.exe (from viewing with the Task Manager) is eating up CPU
Time, Page Faulting like mad and I have loads of unused memory. I haven't a
clue what its doing...

However when I am in a piece of code (e.g. writing a function ) just writing
normal stuff then I don't have this problem.

Is it the size of the project and its trying to verify the variable, WIN XP
or perhaps a setting (option) that I have overlooked ???

ANy help/direction appreciated.

Cheers,

Desmond.

[CJ Taylor]

Hehe... Yeah... I agree... 80,000+ lines of code.... 3 months of non stop
work...

no.
"Desmond Cassidy" <De*************@T-Online.de> wrote in message
news:O2**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Unfortunately... a bit late in the day to change to c#.....

Have you seen any reference made to this in the MS Site,.???
"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:OJ**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

* "Desmond Cassidy" <De*************@T-Online.de> scripsit:

Very surprised no reference is made to this activity in the Microsoft
site....????

I am not sure where it is documented, but for very large projects,
currently performance in C# is much better because no checking is done
while typing code into the text editor window.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Desmond Cassidy]

Hi Urs,
Many thanks for a lengthy, qualified and most helpful reply.

You have almost hit the nail on the head I suppose.

I have a Pentium IV 768 Mb with Norton Anti Virus prot and I work from
home with a network share (VPN ADSL) of the project.

I have Norton Internet Security Professional but don;t seem to be able to
disable it for certain directories...I must be missing something in the
documentation. ??

I will now download FileMON and have a look at the activity....I havn't seen
one of these programs since the early days on RSTS/E and VMS (The best one
was a utility for RSTS/E by a comapany knowns as Software techniques of
Gloucestershire. I love these utilities.....it basically takes away a lot of
the guesswork....

I have an opportunity in the next few weeks to migrate to Winserver2003 and
VS.Net 2003 so that certainly looks like a viable option.

I'll let you know my findings....

Again, many thanks,

Desmond.

"Urs Eichmann" <no****@nospam.ch> wrote in message
news:O4**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Desmond

I don't think your solution with 9 projects and 300 vb files is
generally too large to handle for VS. We have a VB.NET solution here
with 17 projects and currently 1248 .vb files in them. We used to have
huge IDE performance problems in VS.NET 2002, i.e. stalling for 1 minute
after entering a source code line. But the problems completely went away
when we switched to VS.NET 2003 - MSFT really did a good job on
improving their background compiler! We have no timelag whatsoever now
when editing code.

things to consider IMHO:
- low memory, for a large project you should have 768 MB RAM at least
- slow CPU, anything below a P IV is not suitable
- virus scanner active, disable it for the directories where you have
the project files
- perhaps to work files in the obj directories are corrupt? --> delete
all the obj directories, this already solved many problems for me
- you *are* working on your local harddisk and don't have your project
files on a network share, are you?

I would also consider checking with filemon (www.sysinternals.com) what
the compiler is doing, perhaps he writes working files to unexpected
places or so.

Desmond Cassidy wrote:

Hi,
I don't know whether this is the correct place to ask this question..anyway here goes...

I have a large solution with about 300 .vb files split into 9 projects
VB.net Framework 1.1 WinXP Pro

Whilst editing, as soon as I try and enter a statement like

Private strName as string

Then the VS.net stalls for about 30 seconds until the cursor is usable
again, devenv.exe (from viewing with the Task Manager) is eating up CPU
Time, Page Faulting like mad and I have loads of unused memory. I haven't a clue what its doing...

However when I am in a piece of code (e.g. writing a function ) just writing normal stuff then I don't have this problem.

Is it the size of the project and its trying to verify the variable, WIN XP or perhaps a setting (option) that I have overlooked ???

ANy help/direction appreciated.

Cheers,

Desmond.

[Urs Eichmann]

Desmond,
you should *never ever* work with a network share when you edit a
project with VS.NET!! This is because VS.NET will put lots of temp files
right in the project folders (namely into all the OBJ directories!)
which will of course be much slower than when you work on your local
hard drive!

Instead use VSS (Visual Source safe) or a similar versioning system to
move files back and forth from a server to your local machine.

Regards,
Urs
Desmond Cassidy wrote:

Hi Urs,
Many thanks for a lengthy, qualified and most helpful reply.

You have almost hit the nail on the head I suppose.

I have a Pentium IV 768 Mb with Norton Anti Virus prot and I work from
home with a network share (VPN ADSL) of the project.

I have Norton Internet Security Professional but don;t seem to be able to
disable it for certain directories...I must be missing something in the
documentation. ??

I will now download FileMON and have a look at the activity....I havn't seen
one of these programs since the early days on RSTS/E and VMS (The best one
was a utility for RSTS/E by a comapany knowns as Software techniques of
Gloucestershire. I love these utilities.....it basically takes away a lot of
the guesswork....

I have an opportunity in the next few weeks to migrate to Winserver2003 and
VS.Net 2003 so that certainly looks like a viable option.

I'll let you know my findings....

Again, many thanks,

Desmond.

"Urs Eichmann" <no****@nospam.ch> wrote in message
news:O4**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Desmond

I don't think your solution with 9 projects and 300 vb files is
generally too large to handle for VS. We have a VB.NET solution here
with 17 projects and currently 1248 .vb files in them. We used to have
huge IDE performance problems in VS.NET 2002, i.e. stalling for 1 minute
after entering a source code line. But the problems completely went away
when we switched to VS.NET 2003 - MSFT really did a good job on
improving their background compiler! We have no timelag whatsoever now
when editing code.

things to consider IMHO:
- low memory, for a large project you should have 768 MB RAM at least
- slow CPU, anything below a P IV is not suitable
- virus scanner active, disable it for the directories where you have
the project files
- perhaps to work files in the obj directories are corrupt? --> delete
all the obj directories, this already solved many problems for me
- you *are* working on your local harddisk and don't have your project
files on a network share, are you?

I would also consider checking with filemon (www.sysinternals.com) what
the compiler is doing, perhaps he writes working files to unexpected
places or so.

Desmond Cassidy wrote:

Hi,
I don't know whether this is the correct place to ask this
question..anyway
here goes...

I have a large solution with about 300 .vb files split into 9 projects
VB.net Framework 1.1 WinXP Pro

Whilst editing, as soon as I try and enter a statement like

Private strName as string

Then the VS.net stalls for about 30 seconds until the cursor is usable
again, devenv.exe (from viewing with the Task Manager) is eating up CPU
Time, Page Faulting like mad and I have loads of unused memory. I
haven't a
clue what its doing...

However when I am in a piece of code (e.g. writing a function ) just
writing
normal stuff then I don't have this problem.

Is it the size of the project and its trying to verify the variable, WIN
XP
or perhaps a setting (option) that I have overlooked ???

ANy help/direction appreciated.

Cheers,

Desmond.

[Desmond Cassidy]

Hi Urs,
Well that is not entirely true....

The VSS Project is in a network share but I have set a 'Working folder'
locally ...every morning I do a 'Get Latest Version' so as I can get the
latest mods made by the othere developers. So everything is local when I am
editing.

Via the Filemon utility I found that when I type a carriage return after I
declare a variable
e.g. Private strJunk as String
then I monitor 2,922 Requests and these are just SUCCESS operations
(IRP_MJ_CREATE) through ALL directoies of the project. It seems to me that
this is where the problem is...isn't there a way of only having to reference
the DLL of the associated projects when I do what I just did ?? Exactly the
same thing happens when I delete the Carriage return !!

I'm a bit lost here for words or ideas for that point.

Cheers,
Desmond.


"Urs Eichmann" <no****@nospam.ch> wrote in message
news:%2****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Desmond,
you should *never ever* work with a network share when you edit a
project with VS.NET!! This is because VS.NET will put lots of temp files
right in the project folders (namely into all the OBJ directories!)
which will of course be much slower than when you work on your local
hard drive!

Instead use VSS (Visual Source safe) or a similar versioning system to
move files back and forth from a server to your local machine.

Regards,
Urs
Desmond Cassidy wrote:

Hi Urs,
Many thanks for a lengthy, qualified and most helpful reply.

You have almost hit the nail on the head I suppose.

I have a Pentium IV 768 Mb with Norton Anti Virus prot and I work from home with a network share (VPN ADSL) of the project.

I have Norton Internet Security Professional but don;t seem to be able to disable it for certain directories...I must be missing something in the
documentation. ??

I will now download FileMON and have a look at the activity....I havn't seen one of these programs since the early days on RSTS/E and VMS (The best one was a utility for RSTS/E by a comapany knowns as Software techniques of
Gloucestershire. I love these utilities.....it basically takes away a lot of the guesswork....

I have an opportunity in the next few weeks to migrate to Winserver2003 and VS.Net 2003 so that certainly looks like a viable option.

I'll let you know my findings....

Again, many thanks,

Desmond.

"Urs Eichmann" <no****@nospam.ch> wrote in message
news:O4**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Desmond

I don't think your solution with 9 projects and 300 vb files is
generally too large to handle for VS. We have a VB.NET solution here
with 17 projects and currently 1248 .vb files in them. We used to have
huge IDE performance problems in VS.NET 2002, i.e. stalling for 1 minute
after entering a source code line. But the problems completely went away
when we switched to VS.NET 2003 - MSFT really did a good job on
improving their background compiler! We have no timelag whatsoever now
when editing code.

things to consider IMHO:
- low memory, for a large project you should have 768 MB RAM at least
- slow CPU, anything below a P IV is not suitable
- virus scanner active, disable it for the directories where you have
the project files
- perhaps to work files in the obj directories are corrupt? --> delete
all the obj directories, this already solved many problems for me
- you *are* working on your local harddisk and don't have your project
files on a network share, are you?

I would also consider checking with filemon (www.sysinternals.com) what
the compiler is doing, perhaps he writes working files to unexpected
places or so.

Desmond Cassidy wrote:
Hi,
I don't know whether this is the correct place to ask this

question..anyway

here goes...

I have a large solution with about 300 .vb files split into 9 projects
VB.net Framework 1.1 WinXP Pro

Whilst editing, as soon as I try and enter a statement like

Private strName as string

Then the VS.net stalls for about 30 seconds until the cursor is usable
again, devenv.exe (from viewing with the Task Manager) is eating up CPU
Time, Page Faulting like mad and I have loads of unused memory. I

haven't a

clue what its doing...

However when I am in a piece of code (e.g. writing a function ) just

writing

normal stuff then I don't have this problem.

Is it the size of the project and its trying to verify the variable,

WIN
XP

or perhaps a setting (option) that I have overlooked ???

ANy help/direction appreciated.

Cheers,

Desmond.

[Desmond Cassidy]

OK...I have worked out why the overhead exists.....Namespaces.

I have defined a Namespace fro my class module to be

Namespace X.Y.CompanyName.CompanyProject
....
....
....
End Namespace

Where X is the Solution top level, Y is the Software Project (1 of 9 as I
mentioned)...

This meant that every time I entered into a class a Return then it went
through eveything in the hierarchy that the top Namespace had under it....

I took out the Namespace declaration (as no other module references it) and
E=mc2 suddenly exposed itself...like lightning...

I have searched high and low in Google for stuff like Namespace
overhead...nothing....

Could somebody enlighten me as to what I am leaving myself open to by NOT
including my Code under a Namespace as described above ??

Cheers,

Desmond.

"Desmond Cassidy" <De*************@T-Online.de> wrote in message
news:O9**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hi,
I don't know whether this is the correct place to ask this question..anyway here goes...

I have a large solution with about 300 .vb files split into 9 projects
VB.net Framework 1.1 WinXP Pro

Whilst editing, as soon as I try and enter a statement like

Private strName as string

Then the VS.net stalls for about 30 seconds until the cursor is usable
again, devenv.exe (from viewing with the Task Manager) is eating up CPU
Time, Page Faulting like mad and I have loads of unused memory. I haven't a clue what its doing...

However when I am in a piece of code (e.g. writing a function ) just writing normal stuff then I don't have this problem.

Is it the size of the project and its trying to verify the variable, WIN XP or perhaps a setting (option) that I have overlooked ???

ANy help/direction appreciated.

Cheers,

Desmond.

[Urs Eichmann]

Desmond,

The VSS Project is in a network share but I have set a 'Working folder'
locally ...every morning I do a 'Get Latest Version' so as I can get the
latest mods made by the othere developers. So everything is local when I am
editing.
Ah from our previous post I thought you don't use VSS at all.

Via the Filemon utility I found that when I type a carriage return after I
declare a variable
e.g. Private strJunk as String
then I monitor 2,922 Requests and these are just SUCCESS operations
(IRP_MJ_CREATE) through ALL directoies of the project. It seems to me that
this is where the problem is...isn't there a way of only having to reference
the DLL of the associated projects when I do what I just did ?? Exactly the
same thing happens when I delete the Carriage return !!

I'm not quite sure if you presently still use VS.NET 2002? Because I saw
this very behaviour with the old version. With VS.NET 2003 the problem
went away completely.

Cheers,
Urs