Speeding up ASP.NET development

Question

We're developing web applications using DotNetNuke as a framework and our custom modules for required functionality. The problem is, that it takes a long time for the website to load when you do any changes to code. I'm looking at up to 1 minute for each restart, which really is painfully slow. This leads to very slow develop-rebuild-test cycle.

We're using both console projects and winforms projects as testing ground for new functionality for faster development, but still there is lots of UI fuctionality that has to be done with a browser.

Does anyone have any tips on how to speed up/prevent the appdomain restart that occurs when something changes in the bin folder of a web app?

Answer 1

DNN does a compile on demand when you add/change pages, if you pre-compile them your turn around time should be much faster.