Why is the debugging process slow

[JeffatSJE]

Converting my apps from .NET 35 to .NET 40 was not too painful except for the debugging speed! Why is AutoCAD 2013 so slow....

Should I be building my apps on a 32bit box and then do the final build on a 64bit box?

Thanks

J.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> Why is AutoCAD 2013 so slow....

imho it's not 2013 that makes debugging slow, I think it's Framework4 that's slower (as more functional) than 3.5 was.

But I have not done debugging-speeding comparision tests 😉

>> Should I be building my apps on a 32bit box

I do so (using VmWare), because of the "edit-while-debug" availability for 32bit. That gives more efficiency during coding.

VS does not allow that with 64bit code (and also does it not with the next release afaik).

- alfred -

[Otto_Cad]

Just for reference to anybody who needs it, I had a similar experience.

When debugging my .Net code and executing a instruction [Database].ReadDwgFile() to load a 800Kb file, I had to wait 1 minute 30 seconds (!!!) for it to finish loading. Note: only when debugging; in release mode, loading is fast, less than 1 second. The file loaded was simple, with just some lines, curves, blocks and presentations.

Finally I did a test: Using Autocad Desing Center, I copied all elements from original file to a new one, getting a virtually identical file. However there was no delay when debugging it!

So the possible cause seems corruption, perhaps result from a buggy copy/paste operation inside Autocad.(see for example here)