01.07 Change Tool Window Animations

WINDOWS

Alt,T, O

MENU

Tools | Options | Environment | General

COMMAND

Tools.Options

VERSIONS

2005, 2008

CODE

vstipEnv0018

In the tip vstipEnv0017 (01.06 Improving Performance by Changing the Visual Experience in Visual Studio 2010, page 14), you saw a discussion of how you can improve the visual performance of Visual Studio 2010. Now let’s look at Visual Studio 2008 and 2005. You can change the animation speed of tool windows in Visual Studio 2008 and 2005, but why would you want to do this?

The answer is that you can get a performance boost by speeding up or completely turning off the animation. Select Tools | Options | Environment | General, and locate the Animate Environment Tools option.

I suggest you turn off ...

Get Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft® Visual Studio® now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.