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Reduce overall build time and provide better feedback on the progress in the UI.

Building currently completely blocks the UI, and no progress is shown. Just showing a responsive, non-blocking UI windows which shows progress and has a working cancel button would be a great addition.

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  • Michal Ciechan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @Alexander
    Yes I do remember it speeding up our solution.In my case it was our corporate AV doing threat analysis on every single .dll file. I have been fighting with our infrastructure team for ages to remove our Visual Studio processes and/or Source code locations from the scan list, but no luck. Therefore every referenced .dll that didn't need to get copied each time save a a fair bit of time!

    Unfortunately never had the time to do a good time comparison!

  • Alexander commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @Michal Ciechan:
    Does this work for you?
    I tried this with my big solution, but since then I get build errors often, because (nuget) references are copied to the same output folder from multiple projects at the same time when it tries to build my projects in parallel.

  • Asbjørn Ulsberg commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @Rob, recommending people to buy an SSD in 2017 feels a bit ... outdated. Of course I have an SSD. But even with an SSD, not doing disk IO at all could increase build speeds up to 10 times. It seems wasteful to do the extreme amounts of disk IO Visual Studio does during a build when everything but the final result can be performed in-memory.

    https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/faster-than-an-ssd-how-to-turn-extra-memory-into-a-ram-disk

  • Asbjørn Ulsberg commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Not building to disk, but to memory, would also speed things up. This can currently be implemented by creating a RAMDisk, but that's a hack requiring proprietary, not-for-free, third-party solutions. It's not clear to me why Visual Studio needs to top the disk IO meter in Task Manager when it's building.

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  • David Goodenough commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    For batch builds, when building multiple configurations (e.g. release / debug / release with debug symbols and x86 / x64), that potentially six different configurations. In a batch run they are all run sequentially. This could *EASILY* be improved to build projects in parallel if there are no dependencies. Normal "F7" builds already do this, why not batch builds?

  • Mark Oueis commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    2 minutes is an eternity for a one line code change and then running unit tests for it. Then you found out while its compiling you made an error, you try and stop the build midway, it hangs for a little bit, make the change then wait another 2 minutes. Multiply that by 20 compiles a day for 20 developers and that's 13 hours every day.

  • Kevin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    2 minutes is not very long. Try building the Linux kernel from source.

  • Mark Oueis commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Forgot to mention i'm running on an i7 with SSDs so hardware really won't make a big difference

  • Mark Oueis commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    1) It takes me 22 seconds to build my solution in visual studio if i make no changes to it (100 projects or so).
    2) If i change a core project (one that many other projects depend on), it takes over 2 minutes

    This is horrible for TDD and unit testing since if i need to fix a simple class somewhere and then recompile my test i have to wait up to 2 minutes.

    This is forcing us to mess with the Copy Local flag accross our projects and even then its not enough. Some developers have even started to hack the Microsoft.targets to modify how dependencies are resolved. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/280751/what-is-the-best-practice-for-copy-local-and-with-project-references

  • kovarex commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It was promised, that 2015 build times will improve compared to vs 2013 but they are actually slightly slower.

  • Arne Klein commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Is there anything done in this area?

    It seems that performance is actually getting worse as of today.

    We are working on an MVC application with currently 30 projects and we updated the project to VS 2013 and MVC 5 this week. It seems like the performance decreased a lot since the update.

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