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I've been using VS for Mac for a number of years, going back to when it was Xamarin Studio. It has never been a zippy application, but I feel it has gotten even slower over the past year or so, and now I find it painful to use. Even very basic activities like switch editor tabs or scrolling in the solution explorer panel are painful. Some operations take inexplicably long to work, like showing the Git changes tab, or submitting Git changes; both of these can take ~ 30 seconds or more.
I have a top of the line MacBook Pro (Core i9, 64GB RAM, etc), so that should not be the problem. Does anyone have any hints for how to make VS for Mac more usable?
In the longer term I have some hopes that v8.12 will be faster according to the published roadmap, but it would be great to find some ways to speed it up now.
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I finally found the issue in my case.
For reference i'm working with a Macbook pro M1, 64G RAM.
Visual studio was crazy laggy and slow, freezing when I was try to copy and past lines.
I solved it by unchecking the option "Build with MSBuild on mono" located in the propreties of the solution -> Build -> General.
Month ago I enabled it for testing, and forget it.
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Hi @Rainer
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Thank you for taking time to post this issue in Microsoft Q&A forum. VS for Mac is currently not supported in the Microsoft Q&A forums, the supported products are listed over here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/products/ (more to be added later on).
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Thanks for your understanding.
Sincerely,
Peng
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Thanks for the info. I'm sure you're right, but that directly disagrees with the info on the old Xamarin Forums pages which say that we should use this Microsoft Q&A site for all Xamarin topics.
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MSBuild is very slow. My CPU is at 5% for about 10 minutes. Is there a way to speed up the build process?
Did you figure out any solution to this? @Rainer
Not a full fix, but recent updates to VS have been a little faster. Also, VS definitely slows down when you've had it open for a long time. So I now end up restarting it every few hours, which helps.