Long build time in VS2008 Mobile Application

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Lately testing my application becomes painful. When I hit F5 in debug configuration VS' building time increased. it takes 1-2 minutes to finish building. Even a slight code changes makes me mad :/.

My application uses OpenNETCF and Open Sans font for labels etc. When I started to develop this application it was 100-200kb and now its 800kb+. I don't know what makes the files size that big.

I searched how to trace log of build process in VS2008 but I couldn't find any resource. Is there a way to log building process in Milli Second results ?

`/v:diag` didn't give enough info? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171470.aspx — rene, Dec 30 '13 at 12:29
It is probably the ncb getting fragmented. Normally happens when you use external libs. That is probably why they switched to SQL server on 2010. Try deleting the ncb. — cup, Dec 30 '13 at 12:36
google /v:diag vs2008 gives http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3779773/how-can-the-visual-studio-2008-build-command-line-be-seen — rene, Dec 30 '13 at 12:51

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

As @rene told me I figure out how to see logs while building.

This link helped me out : How can the Visual Studio 2008 Build Command Line be seen?

and also While building Mobile application VS has "platformverificationtask" which is :

Platform Verification Task (PVT) is a post-build validation step to catch the unsupported PMEs before they can result in a runtime exception.

It makes building process longer. to disable pvt use this link : http://www.morkeleb.com/2011/02/21/disabling-platformverificationtask-for-compactframework-projects/

Long build time in VS2008 Mobile Application

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