Azure SDK 1.8 Kills VS2010 Configuration Switching

Question

Ever since upgrading to Azure SDK 1.8 we have been consistently having extremely long delays when switching between build configurations in VS2010. It can take several minutes to switch between a debug and release build. We also see the VS window minimize itself and maximize itself at times during the switch.

This happens 100% of the time on every machine that has been upgraded all Windows 7. We performed the manual install as per the instructions on this page: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35448

Anyone else seeing this?

Answer 1

Have you tried installing the latest "Windows Azure SDK for .NET (VS 2010 SP1) - 2.1" through the Web Platform Installer? I think it should clear those issues.

Here is a direct link to the Microsoft Download page as well:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=39708