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Martin
Martin

Reputation: 40573

Is there a Visual Studio Build Profiler?

My VS.NET 2008 solution is taking longer and longer to compile (ASP.NET 3.5 + ASP.NET MVC 2 + C#) and I am wondering if there is a way to know what project takes the longer to compile and why? I disabled the compilation of a few projects and it helped reduce the build time but I want it faster.

Upvotes: 21

Views: 6229

Answers (4)

mBardos
mBardos

Reputation: 3067

I used the "Parallel Build Monitor" extension to see build start/stop/duration details nicely visualized on a UI.

Upvotes: 0

PostMan
PostMan

Reputation: 6967

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

Then change MSBuild project build output verbosity

When on normal (defaul is minimal) it gives timings for each project, so this could be used to pin point what is causing the slow down. (Assuming you use the Output window)

Or adjust to a higher level to see more detail of what is going on during a compile.

Upvotes: 20

Ruben Bartelink
Ruben Bartelink

Reputation: 61795

@PostMan's answer is what you need (hence my +1 on that)

The MSBuild (4.0) debugger may also prove useful

Upvotes: 3

Scott Lerch
Scott Lerch

Reputation: 2638

You can use MSBuild Profiler to get a breakdown of how long each project and it's tasks are taking. It's a little old and doesn't seem to be supported but I've still found it very useful. Download and install from here then run as follows from the VS command line:

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

When it finishes it will pop-up a GUI with a tree structure breakdown of your solution, containing the time it took to process each project and task.

Upvotes: 7

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