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title: "Faster builds of web projects with VS 2005"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/9/23/faster-builds-of-web-projects-with-vs-2005.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/9/23/faster-builds-of-web-projects-with-vs-2005.html"
published: "2006-09-23T23:35:10"
updated: "2006-09-23T23:35:10"
tags: [".NET", ".Net 2.0", ".Net Quotations"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "This goes out to all the folks who tell me that ever since they switched to VS 2005 - the time it takes to build their solution is very very long when talking about web projects. Stop blaming Resharper, folks. Here's…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Faster builds of web projects with VS 2005

By Roy Osherove September 23, 2006 In [.NET](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net), [.Net 2.0](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-2-0), [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 23, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

This goes out to all the folks who tell me that ever since they switched to VS 2005 - the time it takes to build their solution is very very long when talking about web projects. Stop blaming Resharper, folks.

Here's what [Scott Guthrie has to say about this](http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/09/22/Tip_2F00_Trick_3A00_-Optimizing-ASP.NET-2.0-Web-Project-Build-Performance-with-VS-2005.aspx):

> **Keep the number of files in your /app\_code directory small**.  If you end up having a lot of class files within this directory, I'd recommend you instead add a separate class library project to your VS solution and move these classes within that instead since class library projects compile faster than compiling classes using the /app\_code directory. 

\[via [Branden](http://devlicio.us/blogs/brendantompkins/archive/2006/09/22/Speed-Up-VS-2005-Web-Development-_2D00_-Kick-your-App_5F00_Code-Habit.aspx)\]

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