I’m building an application for windows mobile devices, which deals with a database composed of approximately 1500 files. However, the size of each file is under 50kB, and the overall size is under 15MB.
When Visual Studio deploys the app to a mobile device, it takes from 25 to 30 minutes. I was wondering whether there is a way to speed up the process.
I guess the high amount of files is what is slowing it down, but since I turned on the “Copy only if newer” option for every file, I don’t really see how I could change anything else. Furthermore, the longest stage seems to be “Deploy started…”
Any idea of how I could improve the overall performance?
At start you can disable option for checking the latest version of the .NET CF framework ( Project options -> Devices -> Deploy the lates version… (checkbox).
If that will not help you can create binaries upload script, that will just copy files (xcopy…) to the destination device.