I’ve noticed that whenever I attempt to open up a XAML file in VS 2008 it will freeze up for about 5 seconds. Then whenever I make any changes to the XAML visual studio will freeze up again for about 5 seconds.
To be fair I have a pretty significantly sized XAML application and it seems the real slow down comes from including a Merged Resource Dictionary with a large amount of templates. But freezing up visual studio for this amount of time is incredibly painful.
I have managed to finally get rid of this delay by changing the options for XAML files to “Always open documents in full XAML view”.
You can find these options in Visual Studio 2008 by going to Tools->Options->Text Editor->XAML->Miscellaneous. Thank the flying spaghetti monster for this option!
