Hotfix to Correct Visual Studio 2008 Performance Issues Released

As I mentioned the other day, Visual Studio 2008 was released with some pretty serious performance issues.  Well, within the last couple of hours Microsoft released the promised hotfix to correct the problems.  According to the Microsoft Connect site, this hotfix addresses the following issues:

HTML Source view performance

· Source editor freezes for a few seconds when typing in a page with a custom control that has more than two levels of sub-properties.
· “View Code” right-click context menu command takes a long time to appear with web application projects.
· Visual Studio has very slow behavior when opening large HTML documents.
· Visual Studio has responsiveness issues when working with big HTML files with certain markup.
· The Tab/Shift-Tab (Indent/Un-indent) operation is slow with large HTML selections.

Design view performance

· Slow typing in design view with certain page markup configurations.

HTML editing

· Quotes are not inserted after Class or CssClass attribute even when the option is enabled.
· Visual Studio crashes when ServiceReference element points back to the current web page.

JavaScript editing

· When opening a JavaScript file, colorization of the client script is sometimes delayed several seconds.
· JavaScript Intellisense does not work if an empty string property is encountered before the current line of editing.

Web Site build performance

· Build is very slow when Bin folder contains large number of assemblies and .refresh files with web-site projects.

I have download and installed the hotfix and did a couple of things.  Things seem to look good, but I will not be able to really test out fixes until I get on my work machine.  But, I wanted to go ahead and let everyone know about the hotfix's availability.

You can get the hotfix here:  https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=10826