C# ide slow to pull up help?

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curious if the c#express ide is just by nature extremely slow or if it's
just me?
coming from vb6 the dotnet ides seem sluggish
like hit F1 then wait 30 seconds or more for help to open!?!
mark
 
curious if the c#express ide is just by nature extremely slow or if it's
just me?
coming from vb6 the dotnet ides seem sluggish
like hit F1 then wait 30 seconds or more for help to open!?!
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It's just slow.

The IDE is going to slower in any case; it's doing more. But the help
system is also a completely different process, and launching it takes a
long time.

I usually wind up just using the MSDN web site. Some things are slower
online, but it doesn't seem like such a hassle to get to it in the first
place. :)

Pete
 
Peter Duniho said:
It's just slow.

The IDE is going to slower in any case; it's doing more. But the help
system is also a completely different process, and launching it takes a
long time.

I usually wind up just using the MSDN web site. Some things are slower
online, but it doesn't seem like such a hassle to get to it in the first
place. :)

Pete
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I used to go this route too Pete. Some things I've done to help with the
local help process which have really sped up my "help" researching...:

1.) Install Launchy (www.launchy.net) -- Useful utility to launch
programs/shortcuts using the keyboard rather than the mouse :)
2.) Configure launchy to load the MSDN Library by pressing ALT-Space then
msdn.

Usually, the library takes about 2 to 3 seconds to load...that's it :) Much
faster than going online or using the IDE help :)

HTH,
Mythran
 
I used to go this route too Pete. Some things I've done to help with
the local help process which have really sped up my "help"
researching...:

1.) Install Launchy (www.launchy.net) -- Useful utility to launch
programs/shortcuts using the keyboard rather than the mouse :)
2.) Configure launchy to load the MSDN Library by pressing ALT-Space
then msdn.

Usually, the library takes about 2 to 3 seconds to load...that's it :)
Much faster than going online or using the IDE help :)
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It will depend heavily on your computer configuration. 99% of the time,
I'm running Windows and Visual Studio in a virtual machine on a
two-and-a-half year-old computer. It's very RAM limited in that
configuration, and starting new processes is very slow.

Even if Launchy (which I don't know much about) were to pre-load some or
all of the local MSDN help program code, that would be bad because it
would further pressure my limited RAM, and if it doesn't, there's nothing
it can do to speed up the start-up time of the help program. That is,
your "2 to 3 seconds" is not a function of Launchy, but rather you running
it on a more capable machine.

Pete
 
I had significant performance improvement when I exempted the MSDN folder
from antivirus scanning. I don't remember how long it used to take for help
to open, but it's 3 seconds now on a year-old dual-core 3GHz machine with
8GB ram running Vista x64.
 
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