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

We have a similar situation, and I found that our virtual machines were being heavily throttled, and so although they each ran on a single CPU, they weren't allowed to fully utilise that CPU. I managed to get 3 virtuals running on one physical to all perform 100% faster.

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I'd also look at trying to reduce your number of projects. Our main solutions has 40 projefts, and I've been slowly consolidating these, and making sure new development fits in to existing projects where possible. The main culprits for this were webservices, where each had originally been created in a separate project. I am now adding all new webservices into a single project, and slowly moving the others across.