HELP! How do I rebuild the Visual Studio Workspace

[Lee Ozer]

Hi Folks,

I am having trouble with Visual Studio 6.0 with service pack 3. For some reason, double-clicking on a file to open it takes 30 seconds or longer. Hitting return while editing a file can take just as long. I've already disabled the SQL options and I've disable the VSS background status checks.

Someone suggested that I rebuild the workspace. I tried exporting a makefile from my current workspace but importing it again doesn't seem to rebuild the workspace. How do I do this?

I am going absolutely nuts!
Please help!
--Thanks, Lee (ozer@ea.com)

[ALM]

Here are some tips that may help you:

Have you tried deleting the .NCB file? That tends to grow quite large and it slows things down (although not quite as much as you say).

How big is your workspace, in terms of projects? What I usually do with SourceSafe is that I don't add the workspace file (dsw) to it. I only add the project file (dsp) and keep the workspace out of it (since it can be recreated easily). If you have added the workspace to SourceSafe, I recommend that you delete it from there and also from your machine. Then in DevStudio and open the project file (dsp) by itself, which will trigger DevStudio to automatically create a workspace for it. That's about all I can say about workspaces... but this shouldn't be the reason for your huge delays.

Are you accessing all your VC++ headers and libraries from your local machine or are you pointing to some remote machine? That maybe another source of problems. Check under Tools/Options/Directories/Include files. These files should be located on your machine, if possible.

Good luck! And please let us know what the problem turns out to be.

Alvaro

[Lee Ozer]

Deleting all the files (.NCB, .CLW, .OPT, etc) except the .DSW and .DSP seemed to do the trick!

--Thanks, Lee (ozer@ea.com)