CODEWITHSUNDEEP
visual-studio-2010performancebuild-processprofiler
user1306322
user1306322

Reputation: 8721

How to find "slow" places when building a solution on VS2010?

Is there an instrument that can find me a place in my project which takes so long to build? Like performance profiler, but for the build process of Visual Studio.

P.S. I tried profiling my Visual Studio during build with another instance of VS, but I didn't get obvious results.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 718

Answers (2)

pvasek
pvasek

Reputation: 1156

I got better results with http://msbuildprofiler.codeplex.com/ then compile my solution in a msbuild prompt

MSBuild.exe MySolution.sln /t:rebuild /l:MSBuildProfileLogger,MSBuildProfiler,Version=1.0.1.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=09544254e89d148c

Just be careful to run rebuild target (/t:rebuild) otherwise you get completely different results second time you run it.

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Upvotes: 5

jeroenverh
jeroenverh

Reputation: 267

Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> Build and Run

There you can change the MSBUild project build output verbosity settings

When on normal level it will give timings for each project, so this could be used to see what is causing the slow down. (in the Output window)

On a higher level you will see even more detail of what is going on during a compile.

Upvotes: 5

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