Windows Azure local development environment speed

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Published on 2010-06-07T18:34:25Z Indexed on 2010/06/08 9:02 UTC
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I've started porting an existing ASP.NET web app to Windows Azure and have noticed that the development process is really slow. Each time I make a change to my code and want to view it, I have to effectively redeploy it to the local dev cloud (using Start debugging (F5) or Start without debugging (Ctrl-F5). The process itself takes over a minute, during which time Visual Studio is completely unresponsive.

Am I doing something wrong or is that simply how things are developing for Azure?

My specs:

Visual Studio 2008 9.0.30729.1 SP
5 projects running on .NET 3.5 SP1
Azure SDK 1.1 (February 2010)
Single instance of a single web role
Dual-core AMD 64 machine with 8GB RAM, 64-bit Windows 7, fully patched
The main project itself is quite large (3k files, ~200k lines) but compiles normally in 10-15 seconds

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