Re: Addding a dialog control variable takes ages
I see this all the time and it's one of the biggest complaints about the IDE
changes that happened starting in the .NET version. It shouldn't take 10
minutes. You may want to check to make sure you don't have files that are
needed .cpp, .h, etc. read-only. You may also want to delete the .ncb file
and let it be rebuilt.
Tom
"Norbert Unterberg" <NorbertUnterberg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:80648304-AA43-4D72-B4E9-E550E5A1D64C@microsoft.com...
When doing a right click on a dialog control in resource editor (VS2005
SP1)
and selecting "Add variable", it takes ages until the add dialog appears.
By
"ages" I mean it sometimes takes 10 minutes, sometimes I kill Visual
Studio
after 15 minutes because nothing happens.
I can not see any CPU or hard disk activity during this time. What is VS
doing before showing the dialog? Is it trying to phone home or look for
updates? We are working behind a company firewall that allows internet
access
only through a password protected proxy that VS does not support, can that
trouble VS?
Once the Add dialog finally pops up, it works fine, and the next variables
can be added without waiting for more than a few seconds. Which is still
very
poor compared to VS6...
Do you have any ideas? Is there something I can check, maybe network
activity?
Norbert
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