Typing in Visual Studio 2005 Text Editor is extremely slow

Has anyone else noticed that typing in Visual Studio 2005 is extremely slow Whey I type it seems that the screen is always 2 words behind where my hands are. It makes it extremely frustrating to get anything done.

I'm mainly referring to C# code. It seems like Intellisense is going nuts trying to guess every word I'm going to type and never actually prints the characters to the screen.

Has anyone else experienced this Is there an option I can turn off to get my text editor back !

By the way, I have a very fast computer with Dual 3.0 GHz Zeons with 3GB memory and everything else that should make "typing" very fast.

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Typing in Visual Studio 2005 Text Editor is extremely slow

Bodylojohn
I tried this solution, but made no difference for me. Typing is still dreadfully slow for large .cs files with lots of references. Any other suggestions
TwoSixTwo
What I've notice is that if u have form opened in Design Time it's slowing down the typing. It seems like is trying to update the designer on every keystroke. Anyway once u close the designer in most of the time it will speed up the typing.
lfassio

I had the same problem - very slow typing - after I turned on wordwrap.

I have now turned it off and everything works fine.

Disabe wordwrap at: Tools>Options>TextEditor >C#>General>
amr_sawy
Wow, word wrap causing this!!! Is there a hot fix to fix both of these issues yet

Cause man, I need my word wrap but this is nuts!
jdang
I had the same problem, but in Visual Basic! - However the Navigation Bar option in the Basic menu is grayed out, BUT, if you goto Tools->Options->Text Editor->All Languages->General and unchecking the “Navigation bar” option there it solves the problem in VB as well!!
GaryMcC
Wow! Turning that option off made all of the difference in the world. Typing and intellisense is in "real-time" now. :) Thanks for getting back to me on this.
rkerstens
Basically, as far as I can tell by this entire discussion and my own experiences is that the code editor is essentially unusable (or at least incredibly slow) for any form that has > 2000 lines of code in it. You can make that worse by putting on word-wrap, using the Navigation bar, having the form in design mode while you're editing your code behind etc. etc. etc. (All bugs other than the slowness of the editor with even moderately large code files)

The end result of this is that MS needs to release a public patch right away for the code editor to fix all of these things. Everyone is running into it unless they're doing "Hello World" and it looks bad on MS.

Please, please please MS, fix this stuff quickly and get us a patch before SP1... this can't wait.
mariogib
I've been trying to find a way to write a macro to toggle the Navigation Bar - so I can turn it on for the times I need it. Of course, I'd like to leave it on all the time, but it's just too sloooooooow.

Anyone come across any macros for toggling it
humble.apprentice
Just an FYI that I found this post via Google and tried the suggestion. It immediately did the trick. My machine is a dual processor with a gig of RAM, but it is 4+ years old. I thought VS 2005 was making me realize I needed a new machine. But unchecking this open has things flying again.

Thanks!
-joe
Hrishikesh
Excellent - that works perfectly! Just what I wanted!

Many thanks! :)
Layne Teske

    Sub ToggleCSharpNavigationBar()< xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

        Dim properties As EnvDTE.Properties = DTE.Properties("TextEditor", "CSharp")

        Dim shown As Boolean = properties.Item("ShowNavigationBar").Value

        properties.Item("ShowNavigationBar").Value = Not shown

    End Sub
Daniel McGloin
I have both Navigation Bar and WordWrap turned off, but my CPU still stays pegged at 100%. What's going on !

Rob
Jocker23
We’ve recently discovered an issue where the Navigation Bar can cause this sort of slow-down. Can you try going to Tools->Options->Text Editor->C#->General and unchecking the “Navigation bar” option, and see if that makes a difference

Thanks,
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Kevin
kevinpi@microsoft.com
3lizard3
I did everything here and it's still horriable. If I change the name of a textbox and click off it takes way to long to change. I'm using a p4 2.6 512 ram 7200hd and I just can't make heads or tails anymore. Anyone with any other ideas please help...

I'm programming windows forms in vb.net
Typing in Visual Studio 2005 Text Editor is extremely slow

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