Solution Load Manager

Before Visual Studio 2010 release you had to spent a lot of time waiting while Visual Studio opens your big/huge/enormous solutions. It becomes a real development issue for large products. Often it is not possible to split solution to small pieces because of project dependencies, unit tests and convenience of development within one workspace.

But usually you don't use all these projects at once. You change one bit here, one line there and you do not want to wait until all these utility projects will be successfully loaded. Things get worse with native (C++) projects where a lot of processor power is spent for parsing header files. First of all, we just want to write some code!

This extension provides access to project load priority settings, i.e. it is possible to choose whether specified project should be loaded during solution "start up" or not. The extension allows dramatically reduce solution load time and memory pressure. Additional information can be found at https://github.com/kolomiets/solutionloadmanager

Version History

v0.7

New Visual Studio toolbar was added with the following controls:

• Active profile combo box allows to quickly switch solution configuration between defined profiles
• Settings button shows main Solution Load Manager configuration window
• Reload Solution button reloads VS solution according to currently selected profile

v0.6.1

Fixes compatibility with Visual Studio 2010

v0.6

Fix of a small bug with correct initialization of project priorities during the first load of solution when .slm file with settings is present.

v0.5

Visual Studio 2012/2013/2015 support.

v0.3