Extensions provide a great way to make Visual Studio even
more powerful, and can help improve your overall productivity. One thing
to keep in mind, though, is that extensions run within the Visual Studio
process (DevEnv.exe) and so a bug within an extension can impact both the stability
and performance of Visual Studio.
If you ever run into a situation where things seem slower
than they should, or if you crash repeatedly, please temporarily disable any
installed extensions and see if that fixes the problem. You can do this
for extensions that were installed via the online gallery by re-running the
extension manager (using the Tools->Extension Manager menu option) and by
selecting the “Installed Extensions” node on the top-left of the dialog – and
then by clicking “Disable” on any of the extensions within your installed list:
Hope this helps,
Scott