VS2010 loads slowly. Can I profile extensions' respective startup time?

Question

I have a simple question. Is it possible to somehow get a log of what is taking so much time to load when starting VS2010? On a default install, starting the IDE is very qui

Answer 1

You can use devenv /log as detailed here: MSDN Blogs: Troubleshooting Extensions with the Activity Log.

1. Run devenv /log
2. Close the IDE again to close the log Win+R,
3. Run %APPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\ActivityLog.xsl
4. Wait for it to load in Visual Studio
5. Open %APPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\ActivityLog.xml in a web browser and it will format itself nicely.