EDIT: I became a SharpFellow and so this blog post has moved
Some metrics that we captured on my project: (I think the numbers speak for themselves)
| Operation |
VS 2005 |
VS 2008 |
% Improvement |
| Start the IDE |
00:30 |
00:09 |
70% |
| Load solution |
03:45 |
00:45 |
80% |
| Get Latest (no changes) |
00:13 |
00:05 |
62% |
| Rebuild solution |
02:21 |
01:58 |
16% |
| Run all tests |
05:29 |
03:44 |
32% |
| Start the application |
00:19 |
00:18 |
5% |
FYI our solution has 33 projects in it (including a database project, a web application project, numerous DLLs, an EXE and a WiX installer) and there are almost 1,600 unit and integration tests.