Why Does Visual Studio 2019 Designer Cause Out of Memory Issues?

Question

Why Does Visual Studio 2019 Designer frequently cause out-of-memory issues? First I get at the top "Visual Studio has suspended some advanced features to improve performance." Then I'll soon get out-of-memory errors from message boxes - especially when I hit a Save button. What exactly is Visual Studio loading that is consuming all of this memory? Will upgrading to VS 2022 help (since it's 64-bit)? We have a lot of large image resource files (could they be causing the problem?). What WOULD be causing the problem?

Answer 1

Hi @Eckels, Adam, 

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A! 

Are you using the latest version of VS2019? If no, please open the Visual Studio Installer and update it to the latest version. 

If you have some third-party extensions installed, please temporarily disable or uninstall them under Extensions > Manage Extensions > Installed.   

Besides, the VS2022 and VS2019 can be installed side-by-side, you can consider upgrading to VS2022. It is recommended that you backup your projects in advance. 

You can also see the document to improve Visual Studio performance. 

Sincerely,

Anna

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