Speeding up builds in Visual Studio for .net CE

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Finally I’ve found a way to reduce the compile time for the windows mobile app that I’m working on. The compile time reduced from around 50 seconds to less than 5!! This has certainly made my work more enjoyable and productive.
To do it you need to disable the Platform Verification Task. Just follow these steps.

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Combatting Slow Build Cycles

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

You’ve just written a little piece of code and would like to try it out so you hit build … as you wait for the code to compile your mind starts to wander and by the time the build has finished after a minute or more you’ve completely lost your focus.
Is that scenario familiar to [...]