VB 10 Slower ??

[DroopyPawn]

Is VB Express 2010 slower to compile and run that older versions of VB Express? I've installed it this weekend and it seems a little sluggish on my quad core computer with 1 gig of RAM. I have VB Express 2005 installed for my students at school and it seems to fly just fine. Those school computers are older P4s with 512k of RAM.

[weirddemon]

Why in the heck do you have 1 GB of RAM with a quad core processor?

Either way, VS 2010 is a bit heavier on system resources. Especially more so than 2005. I'd suggest getting more RAM.

A new iteration is almost always going to take up more resources since there's generally more to it. Software moves forward and so must we

[Mogen1000]

2010 might have some new stuff that might not be able to run smoothly on your computer. Because 2010 takes more space then the 2005 one. I dont get how its possible to have 1GB of ram. Most computers usually come with at least 2GB. Maybe upgrade, its not that expensive. Goto your local store or something to up the ram. Mines 4GB and it runs everything smoothly.

[i00]

Is way slower to load a solution for me (28 projects in it) on a 4gb machiene 1.6ghz i7 laptop

I reverted after about a week 2 2008

Kris

[DroopyPawn]

1gb was a typo. I have 4gb on this machine. Fat fingers I guess.

Maybe I'll got back to 2005. Is there anything I really need in 2010? I'm just a casual programmer. I'll rewrite my teacher gradebook this summer and I started on a card game today. I noticed the slow-down the first time a ran what I've written on the card program.

[MattP]

Maybe I'll got back to 2005. Is there anything I really need in 2010? I'm just a casual programmer. I'll rewrite my teacher gradebook this summer and I started on a card game today. I noticed the slow-down the first time a ran what I've written on the card program.

You'd have to take LINQ out of my cold dead hands.

I'm using 2005, 2008 & 2010 on a P.O.S. E4600 dual core with 4GB of RAM and I don't notice a speed difference. The one place I do notice a speed difference is in the error reporting where 2010 is significantly faster (especially on larger projects).

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

Yes, I have to say that I don't see where your complaint would be coming from. No slowdowns here, and i'm not even running a fast machine.

[kleinma]

The entire IDE was rewritten in WPF for VS2010, so yes there is some extra overhead to accomodate all the awesome new features. If you are on a laptop (or desktop) with integrated graphics, you will probably see the performance hit the most, since WPF will render on the GPU when it can, and fall back to CPU when it can't. So not having a seperate graphics card will affect its performance without a doubt.

I personally don't have any slowdown with VS2010 ultimate on my machine, although I am running an i7 desktop with 6GB of DDR3 triple channel ram, and raid 0 intel SSD hard drives.