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I am working on a Visual Studio MVC-4 project. It takes approximately 2 minutes to build the solution, which makes no sense. It is a small solution with 5 projects, with few (less than a few hundred) files in each project. To compare, we have a project which is 10-15 times the size of this project (Web forms), which builds in less than 3 seconds on my computer.

I have heard we migrated from MVC2 to MVC4, and the team remembers the solution was much faster before the migration, but they can't exactly remember it.

It is not only on my computer, but the rest of the computers on the team. I am pretty sure it is in the solution file somehow.

We only have 1 post build event, and it has no effect to remove it.

Any ideas about what to do?

What I have tried

Symbols:

I read a post here on SO, about setting symbols to run locally instead of server. I've done that:

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Enable "just my code" Make sure only my code is debugged:

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Deleting temp folders

Deleted all the different temp folders around on my computer.

Solution file

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preProject 30042013-DescriptionNotNull.sql = 30042013-DescriptionNotNull.sql AlterContentTextsAddAllowHtml.txt = AlterContentTextsAddAllowHtml.txt AlterInvoiceAccountsAddVismaSupplierId.sql = AlterInvoiceAccountsAddVismaSupplierId.sql AlterProjectsAddCategorySelfPublisher.sql = AlterProjectsAddCategorySelfPublisher.sql EndProjectSection EndProject Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "SOMENAME", "SOMENAME", "{903F385F-C309-4189-BE1C-1598BEF9FBE6}" EndProject Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "SOMENAME", "SOMENAME", "{797DCD60-C9C4-4AB4-98FE-2CBB02AA4A85}" EndProject Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "SOMENAME", "SOMENAME", "{BA8847A7-5EFB-4E1B-A689-4BBC4B6183D8}" EndProject Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "SOMENAME", "SOMENAME", "{EA172A15-6AE4-4358-8DB9-B75F6CC20458}" EndProject Project("{2150E333-8FDC-42A3-9474-1A3956D46DE8}") = "Tests", "Tests", "{5E4C1C3C-AB57-49E6-8C7B-1E69CD3FBF67}" EndProject 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{797DCD60-C9C4-4AB4-98FE-2CBB02AA4A85}.Release|Mixed Platforms.Build.0 = Release|Any CPU {797DCD60-C9C4-4AB4-98FE-2CBB02AA4A85}.Release|x86.ActiveCfg = Release|Any CPU {BA8847A7-5EFB-4E1B-A689-4BBC4B6183D8}.Debug|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Debug|Any CPU {BA8847A7-5EFB-4E1B-A689-4BBC4B6183D8}.Debug|Any CPU.Build.0 = Debug|Any CPU {BA8847A7-5EFB-4E1B-A689-4BBC4B6183D8}.Debug|Mixed Platforms.ActiveCfg = Debug|Any CPU {BA8847A7-5EFB-4E1B-A689-4BBC4B6183D8}.Debug|Mixed Platforms.Build.0 = Debug|Any CPU {BA8847A7-5EFB-4E1B-A689-4BBC4B6183D8}.Debug|x86.ActiveCfg = Debug|Any CPU {BA8847A7-5EFB-4E1B-A689-4BBC4B6183D8}.Release|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Release|Any CPU {BA8847A7-5EFB-4E1B-A689-4BBC4B6183D8}.Release|Any CPU.Build.0 = Release|Any CPU {BA8847A7-5EFB-4E1B-A689-4BBC4B6183D8}.Release|Mixed Platforms.ActiveCfg = Release|Any CPU {BA8847A7-5EFB-4E1B-A689-4BBC4B6183D8}.Release|Mixed Platforms.Build.0 = Release|Any CPU {BA8847A7-5EFB-4E1B-A689-4BBC4B6183D8}.Release|x86.ActiveCfg = Release|Any CPU 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{97B74D41-8B99-4782-9B64-60BA180ED667}.Debug|Mixed Platforms.ActiveCfg = Debug|Any CPU {97B74D41-8B99-4782-9B64-60BA180ED667}.Debug|Mixed Platforms.Build.0 = Debug|Any CPU {97B74D41-8B99-4782-9B64-60BA180ED667}.Debug|x86.ActiveCfg = Debug|Any CPU {97B74D41-8B99-4782-9B64-60BA180ED667}.Release|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Release|Any CPU {97B74D41-8B99-4782-9B64-60BA180ED667}.Release|Any CPU.Build.0 = Release|Any CPU {97B74D41-8B99-4782-9B64-60BA180ED667}.Release|Mixed Platforms.ActiveCfg = Release|Any CPU {97B74D41-8B99-4782-9B64-60BA180ED667}.Release|Mixed Platforms.Build.0 = Release|Any CPU {97B74D41-8B99-4782-9B64-60BA180ED667}.Release|x86.ActiveCfg = Release|Any CPU EndGlobalSection GlobalSection(SolutionProperties) = preSolution HideSolutionNode = FALSE EndGlobalSection GlobalSection(NestedProjects) = preSolution {BA8847A7-5EFB-4E1B-A689-4BBC4B6183D8} = {C337490A-F7A8-4800-9BD3-668F5231AE2D} {903F385F-C309-4189-BE1C-1598BEF9FBE6} = {58E3725E-75D2-4AB0-A693-D482152A28E5} 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Process monitor

I've run the process monitor, only looking at cnc.exe . This is my result:

It seems the following records runs again, again and again.

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  • Are you having a lot of static libraries (for C#, netmodules)? Those are what slow down builds on my system by a lot Commented Jun 27, 2013 at 11:02
  • Very few. Log4net, iTextsharp, GhostscriptSharp - thats around it. Our other project have 10 times the amount of libraries :-) Commented Jun 27, 2013 at 11:05
  • It really depends on the Libraries. I dont know those and the scope of them, but I know for example that I have for a C++ a single external library - fftw - which increases compile time from 8 seconds to nearly 2 minutes. So I would investigate on that end. Commented Jun 27, 2013 at 11:38
  • I managed to remove all external libraries, and the build time is aproximately the same. I would be very surprised if that's the cause Commented Jun 27, 2013 at 11:48
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    Have you turned on MvcBuildViews? Compiling the views can take quite a bit of time if you have several of them... Commented Jun 27, 2013 at 19:55

2 Answers 2

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One possible reason that your compile time is so long is that you have have <MvcBuildViews> set to true, which will compile your views and alert you to any syntax errors in your view. Because you can have a large number of views, this process can lengthen your build time significantly (minutes vs seconds). Here is a link to a site which will explain how to turn off/on the MvcBuildViews attribute. In case the site goes down, you basically add the following line to your solution file:

To Enable

<MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews>

To Disable

<MvcBuildViews>false</MvcBuildViews>

However (opinionated diatribe coming) I disagree with him on when you should use this feature. He states you should have this attribute enabled only for Release/Production while I think that you should only have it enabled for Debug configurations. Most developers will fully test their web apps in Debug and then and only then switch to Release and push. Why would one not want to have a compile time check in Debug mode when that is what you are doing...debugging and checking for errors/bugs?

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Just wanted to come back and say thanks. Had the exact same problem with our project and this was the solution.
This added a rocket into my build spaceship.
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Turn on verbose building. Go to Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> Build and Run Set MS Build verbosity to Diagnostic. You should see what is taking time.

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