Large Solution Build

[Tom]

I am working in a team environment and we have followed
the single solution model for our developement. We are
about 25% of the way through our project and Visual
Studio is taking 5 minutes to build the entire solution.
The machines that we are using are 1.8 Ghz with 512 Mg of
memory.

We have considered switching to a partitioned solution
but we feel any UI layer forms will still take a long
time to build because for the references to the business
layer and data access layers.

Are there any recommendations out there for this issue.
I don't like waiting 5 minutes for a build to debug a few
lines of code. At this rate the solution will take more
than 15 minutes to build before we are complete.

Tom

 

[NetPointer]

why dont u create your own configuration..Build->Configuration manager
and specify what u want to compile and what not..ofcourse like me, u would
be working on 2-3 projects at a time..so just compile them.
regards.

 

[Dave]

We have about 25 or so projects within a single solution and it does take a
few minutes to launch a debug session, but it shouldn't have to rebuild all
the assemblies if all you've changed are a few files. If I do a RebuildAll
then it does take 5 - 10 minutes to do them all. One thing you can do is if
you have deployment (MSI install) projects then set the build configuration
so that they only get built during a release build - this can save quite a
lot of time from the build time.