Visual Studio 2008 Web projects brought to a crawl by client components

[Former Member]

Hello,

I'm still experiencing serious Visual Studio 2008 performance difficulties when referencing BO components.

- Empty (brand new w/ default settings) Web project with no BO references: 50 seconds to open

- Empty Web project WITH BO reference (data source, referencing CrystalDecisions.Enterprise, etc.): 5 minutes to open

The only difference between the two empty projects with default settings is the BO data source reference (referencing the CrystalDecisions assemblies in web.config).

Do others share this problem? As mentioned the only thing I'm doing is referencing BO components from an empty project, which goes from 50 seconds to 5 minutes to open (on a fairly configured machine w/ 2GB RAM and problems with no other development tools/applications).

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

An update:

A colleague just installed the Client SDK on her machine and is experiencing the same slowness. We both have installed only the .NET Client SDK (it's about three levels deep in the custom install hierarchy) and no other components.

The other developer immediately noticed VS running slower after the SDK install, and an empty test project became much slower to open after referencing the CrystalDecisions assemblies.

BTW running a dependency checker on these assemblies reveals a ton of BO Win32 dll dependencies.

I'm out of ideas--I've uninstalled/reinstalled and have confirmed this on multiple workstations. Our main objective now is to segregate BO in our development environment and eventually phase out its use altogether.

Edited by: ctdev1 on Mar 26, 2010 2:42 PM

[ted_ueda · Accepted solution]

You may want to open a support case with SAP.

If you do, it'll be good to specify the exact installation component, media and version.

Sincerely,

Ted Ueda

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Ted, thanks for your response.

It's pretty easy to test. With the .NET client SDK installed, create an empty Web project in VS2008 and close it. How long does the project take to reopen?

Now add references to CrystalDecisions.Enterprise and CrystalDecisions.Enterprise.Framework (they live in the GAC) to web.config and close the project. Now how long does it take to reopen? (And for that matter just adding the references to web.config results in about a two minute delay while VS assimilates them.)

If it's anything like our situation the time goes from about a minute (and even that was much less before the SDK install and presumed IDE integration) to 3-5 minutes.

Does this happen to others? If not, I can't imagine what's wrong with our specific configuration as it's very simple.

Edited by: ctdev1 on Mar 28, 2010 5:07 PM

[ted_ueda · Accepted solution]

I was suggesting that:

1. Your issue appears to be deployment-specific, so would be best handled through support.

2. You really need to specify the exact installation component, media and version.

Sincerely,

Ted Ueda