Improving the Start-up Performance of the WPF and Silverlight Designer in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

I wanted to let you know about a last minute change that went into VS 2010 Beta 2 that you can use to improve the startup performance for the WPF and Silverlight Designer.  The change went in late and it was a little risky, so we decided to leave it off until we had a chance to do some more testing with it.  You can turn the change on yourself via a registry key.  We expect the change will be on all the time in the final product, so changing the registry key is strictly a Beta 2 issue.

You can read more about it here: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vswpfdesigner/thread/4511d43f-c134-4329-a970-e374252a620e

If you have any feedback on how this works (or doesn't work) for you, please let me know.  You can contact me at DevPerf@Microsoft.com.

Regards,

Dave