VS2005 freeze and disk thrashing when opening designers in C# projects?

It sounds like you are either running short on RAM and opening a designer puts it over the top or your hard disk needs to be defragmented.

It sounds like you are either running short on RAM and opening a designer puts it over the top or your hard disk needs to be defragmented. It could be registry fragmentation too. Try pagedefrag.

As I mentioned above, my disk is in good condition (I defrag fairly regularly). My machine has 3Gb, and the system appears to report 1.5Gb free (although I think I'll find another utility to verify this). So it doesn't appear to be either of these two things.

Herbie – Dr Herbie Aug 9 '09 at 9:31 Ok, I can verify that throughout the entire process a minimum of 1Gb of free memory is available. Free memory drops by about 40Mb while the disk is being thrashed, but rises again at the end. So it's not that I'm short of memory or that my HDD is defragmented.

– Dr Herbie Aug 10 '09 at 6:04.

OK, so it looks like it was defunct database connections in the Server Explorer tab: A database on our test server was removed without my knowledge, but my project still had a data connection set up for it. It seems that whenever a table adapter is initialised in the designer, VS tries to connect to all the databases in the data connections list causing issues if the database does not exist. It even tries to connect to data connections that are not used by the current table adapter.

Some of our WinForms were badly written (naughy devs!) and were loading data in the constructors without checking for 'DesignMode' - these have been repaired. Herbie.

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