Hi all.
I have recently taken over a new C# application as part of my new job and I have encountered a situation that is slowly driving me mad. There is one specific form within the application that takes forever to open in the form designer. I right click View Designer and the form starts to open. Within 5 - 8 seconds the form has completely drawn on screen but then the PC's cpu spikes to near 100% and the IDE just sits there for over 2 1/2 minutes before it suddenly springs back to life. This happens every time I open the form or even when Visual Studio (2005) decides it wants to redraw the form in the designer. With this happening at least 10 times a day I am really getting hit by a productivity loss here. I hope someone can help as I have tried everything I know to figure this out. Here are some details about the form:-
It contains about 5 TabControls all with at least three tab pages containing a few TextBoxes and ComboBoxes.
There are also around 15 DataGridViews on the form bound to BindingSource controls.
The BindingSource controls all have their DataSource properties set to DataTables within a DataSet.
There is no code in the constructor (other than InitialiseComponent) or the Load event - in fact I have removed all code behind the form and it still has the problem.
I am trying to get them to install SP1 in the hope it might help, but I have a horrible feeling it will make no difference at all. If anyone could suggest how I am supposed to debug this issue I would love to hear it! Any ideas at all would be great.
TIA.