After loading the class information for a workspace, Developer Studio restores
the state of the InfoView pane to when you last saved the workspace. The more
nodes that are expanded in InfoView, the longer it takes to restore the state.
For optimal load time, collapse all of the nodes in InfoView, then save the
workspace.
This is not an issue in Visual C++, version 6.0, because
HTML Help is used for the Help engine rather than InfoView.
You may have a corrupted workspace options file.
The workspace options file will have the same base name as your project with a
.OPT extension. This file does not contain the file lists or the build options
needed to successfully build your projects. You may safely delete this file. If
you find that you need to delete this file frequently, run a disk analysis tool
such as ScanDisk to test the surface of your disk for bad sectors.
You may have network or CD drive paths in your environment,
Developer Studio options, or project settings.
Windows NT
To edit paths from your environment in Windows NT, follow these steps:
In Control Panel, open System.
Click the Environment tab.
Notice that the following two lists of environment
variables exist:
System Variables
User Variables
Look at both of these for any
network or CD drive paths.
Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003
To edit paths from your environment in Windows XP, follow these steps:
In Control Panel, open System.
On the Advanced tab, click Environment Variables.
Note
that the following two lists of environment variables exist:
System variables
User variables for UserName
Look at both of these for any network or CD drive paths.
Windows 95
To edit paths from your environment in Windows 95, use a text
editor and open the C:\autoexec.bat file.
The environment variables
you are most interested in are PATH, INCLUDE, and LIB. These contain the
executable, include file, and library search paths respectively.
Remove all paths that point to locations on your network or your CD-ROM drive.
Developer Studio options
To edit paths in your Developer Studio options, from the Tools
menu, select Options. Select the Directories tab. In the "Show directories for"
list, cycle through each of the four sets of paths--executable, include,
library, and source--and remove all paths that point to locations on your
network or your CD-ROM drive.
Project settings
To edit the paths in your project settings, from the Project
menu, choose Settings. Select the C++ tab. Select "Preprocessor" from the
Category drop- down list. Under "Additional include directories," remove all
paths that point to locations on your network or your CD-ROM drive. Select the
Link tab. Select "Input" from the Category drop-down list. Under "Additional
include directories," remove all paths that point to locations on your network
or your CD-ROM drive.
Save your projects and try again. If the
problem persists, it may be that you created a new configuration based on a
configuration that did have an include or library search path in the project
settings that pointed to a location on your network or your CD-ROM drive. In
this case, Developer Studio saves the options that the configuration was
created with so that if you choose to click the Reset button on the Project
Settings dialog box, the project settings will be reset to the options with
which the configuration was created. Use one of the following methods to modify this configuration:
Delete all such configurations and recreate
them.
Use a text editor to modify the project file (.DSP)
directly. This option is dangerous and may render the project file unusable in
certain circumstances.
The size of the .NCB is dependent on the number and size of
your classes. It is regenerated when you open your workspace. You may delete
this file and see if there is any improvement in load time.
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