Question

i am building a solution with approximately 100 assemblies that is taking a considerable amount of time to compile. I would say in the realm of minutes per assembly. This is in contrast to another product also with 100+ assemblies that will take seconds to move through each one.

In both cases there are complex dependencies and multiple references and in the 2nd case the project is actually larger which doesnt seem to make sense.

I have looked over the CSPROJ files and SLN files and cannot see anything obvious that would stall the compile.

I am building in VS2008 Professional Edition.

NB: Using NANT scripts that use MSBUILD.exe works exponetially faster -> So something in VS is causing a major slowdown.

Does any one have any sugestions as opposed to recreating the entire solution from scratch?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Found out that the project files were referecing network paths instead of local paths. changing these values set the build time back to normal.
Thanks all who replied.