Does the number of projects in a Visual Studio 9 solution impact the solution load and build times?

Question

I'm specifically interested in solution load times & build times - does fewer solutions mean better performance?

Note that I'm not referring to the performance of the built application.

Are load times and build times more efficient when working with a smaller number of projects?

As a guide, we have 50-60 projects in our Visual Studio solution.

Answer 1

I depends on your project, most of the time I work with 10-15. The less projects the shorter the build time.

Projects I typically have are:

• base project with exceptions and error handling
• business logic
• data access layer - repository
• WebForms OR WinForms OR WPF UI

Some of these I would separate into 3-4 other projects. I would also have NUnit test projects as well.