Speeding up build times in ASP.NET

Question

I am currently involved in a ASP.NET project with about 40 projects in the solution. We are doing all our development in cloned Virtual PC environments so all developers hav

Answer 1

Scott Gu has an fairly helpful post about this:

Tip/Trick: Optimizing ASP.NET 2.0 Web Project Build Performance with VS 2005

Scott also has another article on the speed of this Hard Disk, which also has an impact on the general performance of Visual Studio:

Tip/Trick: Hard Drive Speed and Visual Studio Performance