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

You didn't mention your Visual Studio version, but if it's 2005 you might want to consider an upgrade to 2008. In my case this decreased build time on a largish (30+ projects) solution.

Another option it to pre-build a number of libraries that do not change anymore and reference the compiled dll's in stead of the projects.