SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, you may experience slow performance, or Visual Studio 2005 may stop responding. This problem occurs when one of the following conditions is true:
• You try to use the IntelliSense feature to obtain information on fields, methods, or properties on objects, pointers, or classes. For example, you use the following syntax:
Object.
• You try to obtain the explanation for a method or a template by using one of the following syntaxes:
Function(
Template<
• You scroll through a very long source code window. This problem especially occurs when the functions in the source code window are very long.
• You switch between the choices in the Active solution configuration drop-down list in the Configuration Manager dialog box.

Prerequisites
You must have Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1) installed to apply this hotfix.