Our team are currently using Visual Studio 2010 to develop DocRead and have done for a few years. We have never really had a reason, or time to upgrade to VS2012.
However, one thing that’s always bugged me is since VS was re-written in WPF it go noticeably slower to use.
So, my question is VS2012 faster ? If it is we would upgrade for this reason alone 🙂
I find it runs faster on newer hardware, especially the many items. CKS does kill the performance of visual studio, Resharpner wasn’t noticeable on our dev servers though making a performance difference.On our faster machines and new architecture it is definitely faster though handling and loading large projects, and the UI definitely seems to load faster.
That as well, but also the speed with which it loads our projects. Have slimmed down the solutions now, but we are still at 22 in our biggest project.
Aaah okay, so really you want to know about the speed of msbuild, not VS itself per-se.
Have you investigated the multicore options?;-
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/FasterBuildsWithMSBuildUsingParallelBuildsAndMulticoreCPUs.aspx
Ta. I am going to stick with 2010 until this release is done. Just got massively fed up with waiting for builds, was hoping 2012 was much quicker.
Not noticably. I do however have issues in running unit tests, not sure if it is VS or Resharper or combination of both. I ended up going back to VS2010 to run our tests!
