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 was having the same problem. It ended up being a problem with ColdFusion being installed on my local machine (as painful as it is for me to admit). ColdFusion puts Handler Mappings named AboMapperCustom-* that were causing the latency. I uninstalled ColdFusion because I no longer need it (thank God). Another solution could be to remove each AboMapperCustom entry through the web.config. Example:

Make sure the 5-digits following AboMapperCustom- match those in your local IIS Handler Mappings.

HTH