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When starting out with the Visual Studio SDK, one of the things you may notice from the start is the time that it takes to build many of the samples. It's not the actual C# or C++ compilation that takes so long, but rather a post-build step that is run: "devenv /rootsuffix Exp /setup". (The /rootsuffix Exp part simply says use the Experimental hive when running /setup.)

But why does the /setup take so long?

Setup essentially "resets" the IDE, taking into account any new packages that have been registered. Most of the steps in this process are on the order of fractions o





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