A lot of .NETCF developers are surprisingly not aware of the Platform Verification Task in Visual Studio. Disabling this in the build process will speed up the build of .NETCF projects. To make things quick and short, here's what you need to do:
1) Open the file C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Microsoft.CompactFramework.Common.targets for editing.
2) Change the following:
99 <Target
100 Name="PlatformVerificationTask">
101 <PlatformVerificationTask
102 PlatformFamilyName="$(PlatformFamilyName)"
103 PlatformID="$(PlatformID)"
104 SourceAssembly="@(IntermediateAssembly)"
105 ReferencePath="@(ReferencePath)"
106 TreatWarningsAsErrors="$(TreatWarningsAsErrors)"
107 PlatformVersion="$(TargetFrameworkVersion)"/>
108 </Target>
to:
99 <Target
100 Name="PlatformVerificationTask">
101 <PlatformVerificationTask
102 Condition="'$(DoPlatformVerificationTask)'=='true'"
103 PlatformFamilyName="$(PlatformFamilyName)"
104 PlatformID="$(PlatformID)"
105 SourceAssembly="@(IntermediateAssembly)"
106 ReferencePath="@(ReferencePath)"
107 TreatWarningsAsErrors="$(TreatWarningsAsErrors)"
108 PlatformVersion="$(TargetFrameworkVersion)"/>
109 </Target>
The following configuration above was an excert from an article called
Platform Verification Task leading to slow builds on compact framework projects