[Solved] Tired of VS2008 performance

[Jorge]

I don't know what else to do to improve Visual Studio 2008 performance when working the asp.net pages (specially with Telerik components). I have a Core 2 Duo + 2 Gb workstation and performance is awful. For every click I do in every operation I must wait 2-3 seconds for operation to complete. I come form a Delphi background where everything was so fast, and now I must use this heavy Microsoft products.

I uploaded a screen capture. http://rapidshare.com/files/317500723/Capture.wmv.html
It shows how much time it takes to type some text inside Teleriks components. Please tell me if this normal.

Thanks a lot!
Jorge

PS: By the way, my workstation has Windows 2003 installed. Should I install another OS to help performance?
Thanks

[Warren Rumak]

Three things you can do to make a big difference:

1) Don't use a server operating system.  You may find guides out on the Internet that pitch Server 2003 "Workstation", but really, the thing is designed for non-interactive server workloads and various kernel tuning parameters and memory defaults will reflect that.  What you want to use is Windows 7 Professional (or Home Premium if you don't need to be on a domain).

2)  More memory pretty much always helps.  Move up to 4GB.  A fast HDD really makes a big difference, too... 7200RPM is an absolute minimum, and an SSD is ideal.

3) You will most likely find that building the tags yourself in code is faster than using Telerik's UI tools.  They're good as a learning resource so you can get a handle on the basic structure of the RadControls.