Saturday, February 9, 2008 10:00 AM by Michael Paladino
I typically shy away from posting links to new versions of products, patches, etc. because I know there's no way I can keep up and there are already so many good sources available for that type of thing. However after installing the Visual Studio 2008 Web Development Hot-Fix, I have been so pleased that I thought I should share.
The hot fix deals primarily with performance issues related to web development in VS 2008. I knew that the HTML view was often taking a long time to load, but I attributed that to me having something setup incorrectly or invalid HTML. However, this hot fix has drastically reduced the screen freezes I was getting on a regular basis.
Another issue that was driving me crazy was the occassional disappearance of the "View Code" link from the context menu when in HTML view. I never realized how much I used that feature until it was no longer there. Luckily, one of the fixes listed on ScottGu's blog entry is:
"View Code" right-click context menu command takes a long time to appear with web application projects.
So evidently the issue had to do with my use of the web application project model. Interesting.
Anyway, the download was small (~ 2.6 MB) and the install took less than a minute. I would highly recommend this update to anyone writing web applications with Visual Studio 2008. Thanks Microsoft!
