Does the number of projects in a Visual Studio 9 solution impact the solution load and build times?

Question

I\'m specifically interested in solution load times & build times - does fewer solutions mean better performance?

Note that I\'m not referring to the perfor

Answer 1

The problems I see when you create a lot of small projects are :

1/ Encapsulation : A class, a method or a property that you want to share between two projects have to be public and thus to be visible from everywhere. The more projects you have, the more likely it is that you are disclosing some secrets...

2/ Total number of assemblies : As Aku wrote, fewer projects meens fewer assemblies. Since each project copy locally the assemblies they use, you could get up to ( n * (n - 1)) / 2 assemblies in your folders (49 copies of assembly 1, 48 of assembly 2, ...). For 50 projects, this is 1176 files ! => Ok, you probably have a lot less (200 ?), but it is still enought to get a copy or two outdated here and there...