How to make XAML editing with Resharper more responsive

Question

I have been using the trial version of ReSharper (v 7.1.2) on Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition. I'm using an HP Elitebook 8570w, equipped with an i7-3610QM CPU and 4GB of RAM, so performance shouldn't be an issue. And it works quite well, but for some reason it chokes up really bad when I'm editing XAML. Whenever I'm typing something it lags with every single keystroke.

Does anyone have a solution to this problem? If not, is there a way to disable Resharper only for XAML files?

Answer 1

Julien Lebosquain provides a solution on his blog. It involves changing the "Open With" setting of the XAML files to an ordinary text editor, so that they don't automatically open in Visual Studio. He also has a couple of registry hacks, and a Resharper plugin.

The blog article is here:
http://blog.lebosquain.net/2012/08/responsive-xaml-editing-with-resharper/