We get a, "Not enough storage space is available" error at the office quite abit, especially with the move to VS 2008 and instead of just passing around the fix internally, I thought I'd post it publicly in case others may find it useful.

We gleaned this information from a forum post on the MSDN message boards here.

Basically, you're going to allow VS to use more memory.  Since we have WinXP boxes with 4GB this is useful.

First, edit your boot.ini file on your C: drive.  Make a backup of the file just in case (copy+paste it in the same directory for example).

Next, add the 3GB switch option.

Now we need to use a utility.  Open a command prompt.  And run the editbin utility with the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE switch on the visual studio exe, devenv.exe.

Since they are not in the same folders, specify everything with full paths.  For a majority of you that used the defaults to install, this should work, but change the paths if you need to:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\editbin.exe" /LARGEADDRESSAWARE "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"

Now you need to reboot your machine.

Done.

Later