Set up and configuring .Net for 500Mhz

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Jorge_Beteta

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Hello Experts!
I have a Compaq Deskpro 500Mhz, 256 RAM, harddisk 40GB, Windows 2000 Professional as OS and MSSQL2000 as DB. I have installed Visual Studio .Net for developing in asp.net and it's really slow, because of the low processor speed. My question is: Is it any way to configure and set up the software (the OS, the Registry, the DB Manager or the VSNet tool kit) in order to improve performance (straight away: be faster)? Where could I find more documentation about this?

Thank you!
Jorge
 
The IDE itself will most likely be extremely slow on a machine like that, however the actual framework shouldn't be too terribly slow. The minimum is 90Mhz Pentium, so you're well within that limit.

I suggest either doing your development on a faster machine, or using Notepad (or some equivilant, like EditPlus) to do your coding.
 
I used to use the IDE on a Celeron 666MHz and it was terrible. :-\ That was Beta 2 though, so I suppose they could have vastly improved it.
 
Memory will almost certainly be the bottleneck during normal use of the ide - vs.net is a big memory hog. 256mb is the minimum you should have to work with it.
 
Do you really need the SQL Server running locally? I know it's useful for testing, but if you could offload that to another matchine that might help as well as SQL Server can be a beast sometimes.

I can say that the VS IDE only had a marginal improvement going from a P3 700 to a P4 3ghz. When I went from 256 meg to the current 1gig (at work), I noticed a big improvement.

Other than NOT using Visual Studio to do your development, I don't know of any other ideas to get your current setup running faster. VS is a beast - very nice to use, but a performance beast.

-Ner
 
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