Visual Studio 2015 Is Extremely Slow

Visual Studio 2015 is extremely slow

This site contains some useful tips on how to improve the Visual Studio performance, disabling features for large solutions. For example:

  1. Go to Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> C# -> Advanced and uncheck Enable full solution analysis

  2. Go to Tools -> Options -> XAML Designer -> General and uncheck Enable XAML Designer (requires restart of Visual Studio)

  3. Go to Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> All Languages and uncheck Enable CodeLens

  4. Go to Tools -> Options -> Debugging -> General and disable Enable Diagnostic Tools while debugging

Visual Studio 2015 is very slow

My Visual Studio 2015 RTM was also very slow using ReSharper 9.1.2, but it has worked fine since I upgraded to 9.1.3 (see ReSharper 9.1.3 to the Rescue). Perhaps a cue.

One more cue. A ReSharper 9.2 version was made available to:

refines integration with Visual Studio 2015 RTM, addressing issues
discovered in versions 9.1.2 and 9.1.3

VS2015 - executable run very slow

Try to send them feedback. There are rolling perf tests running in VS, but I imagine nobody looks at VS 2015.

Can't you install to VS 2017? They work pretty well side by side. In fact, I suggest you install VS 2017 Preview - I'm using it and it is remarkably stable (in the past, preview editions of VS were crashing all the time).



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