Recently I looked into speeding up Visual Studio builds – I found the results interesting… I decided to do a few POC’s to see where the bottleneck is with large solutions in Visual Studio. After some searching on the net I found various tweaks that one can do to ones machine to get better performance and a few mentions that VS2010 does not handle multiple project files very well – the number mentioned several times was 10 – if you have more than 10 projects in a solution you see a noticeable decrease ......
I have just gotten involved in a project that has been around for a while but developed with a different methodology to the one I am used to. One of the first things I noticed is that there were very little comments if any in the project. When bringing this up with one of the other developers on the team he defended the position of having no comments because as a team they felt that comments were an anti pattern. The motivation was as follows… Motivation 1) We name our methods and parameters so that ......