Debugging sometimes very slow

Question

I'm using VS2008, in a normal mid-size solution.

Sometimes, debug stepping becomes very slow. A padlock gets rendered on the every file tab for every "step" (F10/F11), and it can take up to two seconds for every step. That makes debugging very annoying and slow. Has anyone seen this problem?

Answer 1

Try turning off the "Enable property evaluation…” setting in Debugger options, it should make debugging much faster (read more: Fix: Make Debugging Faster with Visual Studio):

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