Taming Large Solutions
January 17th, 2009
A buddy of mine had a great suggestion on how to work with large Visual Studio solutions. At my work it’s not uncommon for us to have Visual Studio solutions with as many as 45, 65, or even 75 projects. This year we hope to better isolate some of the various system and get back to file references, however, until then I find that working with solutions that large can slow down Visual Studio and consequently slow me down.
Using Davy’s suggestion, I created a new solution with the single project that I work with 85% of the time. I can open the solution and compile in just seconds now instead of minutes.