Visual Studio network performance with TFS through a VPN

9th May 2011

I’ve been accessing a TFS server remotely through a VPN connection. I’d noticed that the performance was not that great, and then discovered this suggestion to specify the defaultProxy element in the devenv.exe.config file.

That worked pretty well, but I noticed that things were still a bit sluggish, so added a bypasslist element too, to ensure that anything on a 192.168.0.0 network doesn’t use the proxy either. That’s working nicely now.

<system.net>                    <proxy bypassonlocal=“True” proxyaddress=http://proxy-server:8888/>                     </system.net>