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Haven't you tried XBox, Kinect, Office, Visual Studio?
by dm8 14y ago
Haven't you tried XBox, Kinect, Office, Visual Studio?
- prezjordan 14y agoA lot of people praise VS - I just don't see it. It's so bloated, so slow, and so ugly. It takes 60 seconds to open on my high quality workstation and it crashes if you click the mouse when you're not supposed to. Not my cup of tea.
- steverb 14y agoIf that is actually true, then you do not have a high quality workstation.
- prezjordan 14y agoSee, I always get this response, but no one has yet to prove to me that VS can open and be ready to use in less than a minute. I'd like to see video, until then I'll keep believing VS users are incapable of keeping time.
- steverb 14y agoActually, I was responding to the bit about it crashing when you move the mouse wrong. Complaining about how long VS takes to start up is about as useful as complaining about how long it takes the computer to boot. Neither are part of my daily work flow. I don't shutdown the computer, and I don't generally close VS 2010. Anyway, I was curious and I timed it. I clocked about 12 seconds to completely start VS2010 on a computer with a spinning disk. And just for you, I made a video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oNOmA2OozQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oNOmA2OozQ
- prezjordan 14y agoA+ for following through, thank you. I wish my experience weren't so sour.
- steverb 14y agoAnd here I was, all prepared to think bad thoughts in your direction and you have to go and be all reasonable. What has the internet come to?
- prezjordan 14y agoThis isn't r/technology ;)
- dag11 14y agoI made this just for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A78RVmhoGMw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A78RVmhoGMw Visual Studio opens in 2 to 3 seconds.
- prezjordan 14y agoWow that's quick. Would it be too much to ask to see video of you opening a "not-so-small" project? Maybe startup time isn't my chokepoint. But thanks for making the video. And nice title, ha.
- hackinthebochs 14y agoDo you use resharper? I had a nasty issue with something involving resharper and/or mercurial and/or my SSD where it would take 10 seconds to change documents and literally 10 minutes to close after a day's work. I re-cloned my project, started working out of the new repo and it was snappy again. Went from 10 minutes to close VS to about 5 seconds.
- molmalo 14y agoMine opens in exactly 1 second. But of course, it all depends on the machine specs. I have an i7 2600k, with a vertex 3 ssd. That makes it super quick.
- lifeformed 14y agoSounds like you need to get a SSD!
- tempuser007 14y agoIs it a high quality PC or some overrated super hyped Apple workstation ? Cause on my 3 years old PC with a new SSD I just blink and I can start typing code. If it has no SSD .. it's not high enough :D. Ugly, bloated ??? Omg, youtube.com/watch?v=G1iaVD-B2IA
- prezjordan 14y ago$2400 workstation laptop.
- tempuser007 14y agoI just clicked again on a small project just to see the load time. I'm not bullsh*ting but it was up and ready in ~3 seconds.Quadcore 2.5Ghz on some 3 years old Asus MB with 4Gb RAM and a brand new SSD (Crucial m4 i can recommend).
- prezjordan 14y agoAlright fine I believe you. I can't pinpoint why I have such an issue with VS. I mean, I don't have much use for it since I'm a(n) RoR developer, but I don't really know why I hate it so much. Freshman year of high school I took my first CS class in Visual Basic and I really liked it. I said "I" 9 times. Sorry.
- jongalloway2 14y agoTry running Visual Studio in safe mode to see if it's an extension / add-in that's causing issues: devenv /safemode Some other tips here. Like everyone else replying, Visual Studio 2010 launches in under 10 seconds for me; Visual Studio 2012 RC even faster.
- jongalloway2 14y agoForgot the link to the other tips - here it is: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2516297 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2516297