Visual Studio to Finally Address Performance Issues
“A downside of this is that Visual Studio, while opening a solution, would wait until the background complier had a chance to run.” — I hit this daily. And, in fact, it was only on reading this that I realized that SP1 replaced feacp.dll.
Yes, I know Microsoft likes to keep their preference dialogs uncluttered. so they don’t add a check box for features that cause major problems, like background recompilation. And the ability to control how many items appear in the Window menu is far more important than being able to turn off the buggy, molasses-slow background compiler.
Still, I don’t mean to whine, but do you think next time you could either finish the feature or give us a way to turn it off? No wonder Windows developers like to inflict junk on users. It’s because we believe on some subconscious level that pain should be applied equally to everyone.