Why is the ASP.NET/Visual Studio Web Development Server so slow?

Question

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I know that compiling nowadays is much faster than it was before. Yet, for me, it se

Answer 1

This is actually a known performance issue with MVC, caused by throwing a ton of exceptions internally on startup. If you have IntelliTrace turned on, this will wreck havoc with it. Try disabling IntelliTrace and see if that improves it at all.

Source: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/535799/debugging-mvc-is-very-very-slow