Greetings!
We have a 300,000 line C application that I've been building for 11 years through multiple versions of Visual C / Visual Studio.
We keep most of our constants in one file called "constants.h". When I go to the edit this file, the newest VS ("VS 2005") will often freeze. I believe it is busy recalculating "browse" information on the fly. That is, if I change the value of a '#define', it seems to be recalculating all these values so that it can SHOW me these values when I am viewing other files.
I don't know if this is strictly part of "Intellisense". I like Intellisense's auto-complete features -- but even when I turn them OFF, I still have this horrible freezing problem.
Please let me know how I can turn off this feature so that I can once again edit my #define values without my computer freezing.
Thanks!
Clay
VS 2005 (without .NET): App Freezes for 30 Seconds or more
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VS 2005 (without .NET): App Freezes for 30 Seconds or more
Guns
The only way I have found this to be completely turned off for sure is to rename the following file:
\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\vcpackages\feacp.dll
to something else, and then to delete all your OPT and NCB files in your project folders.
But you'll really want to get in touch with someone on the Microsoft IDE team so they can work with you on your performance problems so they can address them in the Orcas (Visual Studio 2007) Timeframe.
P.S. another reason why I find it freezes quite a bit, is Visual Sourcesafe. Every time you make a change to a file, it does "Updating pending checkins" and freezes the app for 2 to 5 seconds. And getting all files from source control is at least 30 times slower than from within Visual C++ 6.0.