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visual-studio-2013
Rainbolt
Rainbolt

Reputation: 3660

Unload projects before opening the solution

I need to open a solution that contains hundreds of projects. However, I only need to have about ten of these projects loaded at any given time. The sheer size of the solution is causing Visual Studio to stall or crash when I take any action with that solution loaded.

I have tried to unload projects, but unloading even a single project is taking upwards of ten minutes. Is it possible to unload projects before opening the solution, or prevent them from being loaded in the first place?

I would prefer to open only the "shell" of the solution, and then manually load the projects I need.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 855

Answers (2)

Maria Ines Parnisari
Maria Ines Parnisari

Reputation: 17506

Try the Funnel extension: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/5396fa4a-d638-471b-ac3d-671ccd2ea369

Decrease solution loading and re-compilation times dramatically by filtering projects not relevant for the current development task.

Large solutions which contain a significant amount of code or projects may be time consuming for Visual Studio in loading and compiling the solution code. In most cases however, we do not need all the source code contained by a Visual Studio solution. We usually work on one or two aspects or features of the application and after completing them, move to the next one. Funnel allows an in-time selective loading of solution parts. It improves the performance for loading and compiling your projects dramatically.

Upvotes: 2

SimonA
SimonA

Reputation: 1

I know this is not really an answer, but I had the same problem with a solution containing 100 projects (OpenSim). VS2013 would spend ages churning over it, freezing up, not responding etc. In fact it was unusable. I uninstalled VS2013 and went back to VS2010 which is much faster. I don't think you can just load some of the projects as there are probably dependencies and VS constantly builds in the background so as to give you the right intellisense and autocomplete and highlighted errors etc.

Probably not what you want to hear ;)

Upvotes: 0

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