This week my Visual Studio started loading my solutions very slowly. It would take 10 minutes or more just to get everything up and ready. I suspected something network related since there was no real CPU or disk usage occurring.
After some digging, I found this interesting tidbit.
From: Never doubt thy debugger
It was handy finding out where the recent file list was. Mine didn't have network shares, but it did have some projects that had been moved to other directories. I deleted all the entries.
BTW, Visual Studio has to be shut down before the list is cleared. If not, it gets recreated with the in-memory copy when Visual Studio exits.
This helped some projects but not all. I still had one solution that was slow. After a bit, I noticed that a file on a network share was being checked for searches. While working I had dragged a file from a network share into my Visual Studio and didn't close it (I tend to keep a lot of files open at once). Once I closed all my files, things got better.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
The Perfect Halloween
No jokes or sarcasm. Last Friday was a perfect Halloween. It was the perfect convergence of elements.
Here in Colorado Springs, Halloween has a weather reputation. It's usually bad. It is often cold and/or windy and if it isn't wet, it probably because it is snowing. I have been out with my daughters in all kinds of inclement weather. (My oldest is a die-hard)
So, the weather was perfect. It was 55-60 degrees, no wind and clear.
However, let's not forget that it was a Friday. No school the next day meant no homework and no strict bed time. The kids could trick-or-treat to their hearts content. And they did.
We had some friends come over. Each of my daughters had trick-or-treat buddies. Therefore there were no fights about taking a little sister.
My kids are in 3 of the 4 trick-or-treater groups. My oldest is a teenager. She wants to go fast and get as many doors as possible while being with friends. No adults, please. My second is in the sweet-spot. As a pre-teen, she went with friends and got a lot of candy. She also got a bonus, a friend she was able stay over for a sleep-over. The youngest got to go till she was tired and her bag was too heavy. She loved the decorations at houses as long as they weren't too scary. Halloween is magic at that age. The fourth group are the little kids that are carried or pushed in strollers. I don't have any of those any more, but I know that that age is all about being cute.
Last week was parent-teacher conferences. The kids were out of school Thursday and Friday. It was like an actual holiday. The kids had time to do all these fun things like decorate the yard and carve a big pumpkin.
My wife dressed up like Palin. She's a natural for it and looked good. She got a lot of comments on her costume. And there were lots of viewers because with the warm weather, everyone was out. She was very happy showing off as she handed out our candy.
After the rounds were all made by the kids they came home for the great trading session. Wall-street at home. This year, everything was sorted into tradeable and not-tradeable. The bartering began and then ended. There were no fights.
And for me? Well, I got chocolate.
Isn't that what truly makes a good holiday? Everyone was happy!
Here in Colorado Springs, Halloween has a weather reputation. It's usually bad. It is often cold and/or windy and if it isn't wet, it probably because it is snowing. I have been out with my daughters in all kinds of inclement weather. (My oldest is a die-hard)
So, the weather was perfect. It was 55-60 degrees, no wind and clear.
However, let's not forget that it was a Friday. No school the next day meant no homework and no strict bed time. The kids could trick-or-treat to their hearts content. And they did.
We had some friends come over. Each of my daughters had trick-or-treat buddies. Therefore there were no fights about taking a little sister.
My kids are in 3 of the 4 trick-or-treater groups. My oldest is a teenager. She wants to go fast and get as many doors as possible while being with friends. No adults, please. My second is in the sweet-spot. As a pre-teen, she went with friends and got a lot of candy. She also got a bonus, a friend she was able stay over for a sleep-over. The youngest got to go till she was tired and her bag was too heavy. She loved the decorations at houses as long as they weren't too scary. Halloween is magic at that age. The fourth group are the little kids that are carried or pushed in strollers. I don't have any of those any more, but I know that that age is all about being cute.
Last week was parent-teacher conferences. The kids were out of school Thursday and Friday. It was like an actual holiday. The kids had time to do all these fun things like decorate the yard and carve a big pumpkin.
My wife dressed up like Palin. She's a natural for it and looked good. She got a lot of comments on her costume. And there were lots of viewers because with the warm weather, everyone was out. She was very happy showing off as she handed out our candy.
After the rounds were all made by the kids they came home for the great trading session. Wall-street at home. This year, everything was sorted into tradeable and not-tradeable. The bartering began and then ended. There were no fights.
And for me? Well, I got chocolate.
Isn't that what truly makes a good holiday? Everyone was happy!
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