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

Check out if this helps:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mahuja/archive/2008/07/08/resolving-very-slow-symbol-loading-with-vs-2008-during-debugging.aspx