It's definitely the project system. I once worked on a solution containing ~150 projects. I consolidated all the code down to about 15 projects and the build ti

It's definitely the project system. I once worked on a solution containing ~150 projects. I consolidated all the code down to about 15 projects and the build time of the solution dropped by about 5x. I've been working in Java lately and frankly, I see little difference in compilation speeds between the two.