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

Question

(xkcd)

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

Answer 1

I met the same problem these days, working under Win7, VS2010, and developing a Silverlight solution with 10+ projects. It takes about 3 minutes to launch IE, and waits 3 minutes to get back VS after closing IE. I overcame the problem by trying different ways. But the only valuable method:

1. Unload all projects not for debug
2. Start debug the solution (it works normal )
3. Reload other projects
4. VS works normal here. (VS works normal)

It seems the problem is just related with the VS environment on my side. It has nothing to do with ASP.NET Development Server or IIS.