I'm using VS2005. I have a solution consisting of twelve projects. All
projects are console/service apps except for one which is a WinForms app.
There are no web projects. I'd say that I'm at around 125k-150k lines of
code in total.

My development machine has 2gigs of physical RAM, a hyperthreaded CPU
running at 3.6ghz, and plenty of harddrive space on a recently defragged
drive. The only installed apps are VS2005 and SQL Server 2005. The OS is
Win2003 Server.

VS2005 seems to be incredibly slow for me. Compiling a project, or even the
whole solution, seems pretty quick -- but after the compile/build is
complete, VS2005 just sits there. The application hangs and accepts no
keyboard or mouse input. It hangs for about 10 seconds. It's irritating
because I compile quite frequently, particularly during debug sessions.

The hang problem doesn't occur in a given VSNet session until I enter
WinForms design mode. The first time I enter design mode, VSNet hangs and
spends about 20 seconds filling the darned toolbox. After the initial
toolbox hang-fest, the post-compile hang problem begins.

I'm suspicious that the entire problem is ToolBox related. By far the
largest project in my solution is the WinForms app. This app contains
somewhere between 75-100 different control classes that derive from
UserControl. VSNet insists on sticking each and every one of these suckers
in the Toolbox. I don't want them there!! There's no need for them to be
there. I will never have occasion to drag one of them onto a form. They are
created dynamically at runtime in the code, not at design time. If there
were a way to tell VS2005 to NOT add my custom controls to it's
slow-as-molasses toolbox, I think the problem might be resolved. Any ideas
on how to do this? Perhaps some special attribute that needs to be applied
to each control?

Thank you for your support,

Jules Winfield