Visual Studio running slow
My Visual Studio 2005 text editor has been running very slowly when editing HTML lately. I noticed that it is probably trying to auto-complete all my tags (not that useful when doing HTML, really) and also validating my HTML as I go. Also, it appears that the navigation bar (the dropdown lists at the top of the editor that contain shortcuts to functions/sections within the current document) is constantly updating as well. All of these put together were taxing the application to the point where I was having to pause every few keystrokes and wait for the editor to catch up.
The fix is pretty easy. Under Tools->Options, choose Text Editor->HTML, and uncheck all of the following: Auto-list members, Parameter information, and Navigation Bar. You’ll probably hardly miss the auto-complete functions, but if you do need information about what you can enter at the cursor (for example, when creating a tag you might want to see all available attributes), you can always use Ctrl+Shift+Space.
As far as I know, this is an issue that is common to VS2003, VS2005 and VS2008.
