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I was having a serious performance problem running my project within Visual Studio - about 15s on every page load (Visual Studio 2008, SP1, Telerik 2011.3.1115.235). This appeared to be within the rendering of the menu component, with the delay proportional to the number of root nodes that had children.
I traced this to the presence of NHibernate.dll (3.0.0.4000) in my bin directory. I'm no longer using NHibernate, but the dll was left there from previous builds. Because it was no longer referenced in the project, it was not being removed by a Clean. Deleting this dll completely fixed the problem. The problem is repeatable - put NHibernate.dll back and the problem re-appears. Copy NHibernate.dll into a clean project without the problem and the problem appears.
So fixed for me, but just posting in case anyone suffers from the same problem.
I traced this to the presence of NHibernate.dll (3.0.0.4000) in my bin directory. I'm no longer using NHibernate, but the dll was left there from previous builds. Because it was no longer referenced in the project, it was not being removed by a Clean. Deleting this dll completely fixed the problem. The problem is repeatable - put NHibernate.dll back and the problem re-appears. Copy NHibernate.dll into a clean project without the problem and the problem appears.
So fixed for me, but just posting in case anyone suffers from the same problem.