While on the topic of improving Visual Studio performance,
you might want to also check out the blog posts and articles below for some
good recommendations:
Tip/Trick: Optimizing ASP.NET 2.0 Web Project Build Performance
with Visual Studio 2005
Public Hotfix Patch Available for VS 2005 F5 Debugging
Performance Issue with ASP.NET
Speed up Visual Studio 2005
Optimize the Launch of Visual Studio 2005
One other performance gotcha I've heard about
recently is an issue that a few people have reported running into with the
Google Toolbar add-in. For some reason this can sometimes cause long
delays when attaching the Visual Studio debugger to the browser. If you
are seeing long delays with your web application loading, and have the Google
Toolbar (or other toolbars) installed, you might want to try uninstalling them
to see if that is the cause of the issue.
Hope this helps,
Scott
P.S. For more of my tip/trick posts, please check out
my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page.