[Other Issues]: Designer Performance for Ribbons is painful

[Smurf-IV]

Open "Outlook Mail Clone" example in Designer Click on one of the buttons and select it image in the designer Now change to another button

The whole Visual Studio is locked and no significant CPU cycles are observed. Can take upto 4 mins to recover on a 4GHz machine !! And sometimes this happens:

Maybe related to #10

[PWagner1]

Possibly something related to the old VS 2005 environment

[Smurf-IV]

Possibly something related to the old VS 2005 environment

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I'm using VS 16.11

[PWagner1]

The designer might be using something that pre-dates .NET 4

[Smurf-IV]

Just tried this in vs 17.8.p1 with today's alpha in debug, And it opens from a clean envtonment (No Forms had been opened since solution load) to displaying the designer form in under 30 secs