Visual Studio 2010 — how to reduce its memory footprint

Question

I have a solution with just under 100 projects in it, a mix of C++ and C# (mostly C#). When working in VS2005, the working set of Visual Studio is considerably smaller than

Answer 1

You can try using the Solution Load Manager. It'll let you mark some of the projects files as load on demand or not load at all. That may help.