Enable parallel build inside Visual Studio

[vasily-kirichenko]

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[forki]

Epic! ;-)

[vasily-kirichenko]

@forki I think you are right :) Huge thanks @vladima

[enricosada]

awesome @vasily-kirichenko !!

[latkin]

Wow, very cool.

@vladima - any further details that you recall from earlier experiments you mentioned? Were there known issues that resulted in this feature being off by default? I am curious why it is turned off if it is indeed fully baked and tested, or if there are known scenarios that need some attention?

[vladima]

@latkin as I remember Brian has added this key shortly before he left so I think that this feature was never thoughtfully tested.

[vasily-kirichenko]

As so, maybe it's better to add a proper setting for this (I mean in the VS UI), at least for first F# 4 release?

@enricosada I know you are the VS settings guru :) Wanna help with the setting?

[dsyme]

For those wanting to try this out you can enable it by following the instructions here: https://gist.github.com/vasily-kirichenko/84f7ebc284d92742493b

@vasily-kirichenko I'm speaking for @latkin and @KevinRansom, but my understanding is that the feature window has closed for Visual Studio 2015 RTM (they are now in "ask mode", meaning explicit approval is required for bug fixes), but that this would be considered for the first update.

I also found some internal emails about this prototype which @latkin now has, pointing out that there is a minor thread affinity interaction with the VS type provider security warning dialog, but that was the only known issue.

[forki]

Another big plus for getting rid of the dialog ;-)
On Jun 9, 2015 11:11, "Don Syme" notifications@github.com wrote:

For those wanting to try this out you can enable it by following the
instructions here:
https://gist.github.com/vasily-kirichenko/84f7ebc284d92742493b

@vasily-kirichenko https://github.com/vasily-kirichenko I'm speaking
for @latkin https://github.com/latkin and @KevinRansom
https://github.com/KevinRansom, but my understanding is that the
feature window has closed for Visual Studio 2015 RTM (they are now in "ask
mode", meaning explicit approval is required for bug fixes), but that this
would be considered for the first update.

I also found some internal emails about this prototype which @latkin
https://github.com/latkin now has, pointing out that there is a minor
thread affinity interaction with the VS type provider security warning
dialog, but that was the only known issue.

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[vasily-kirichenko]

@dsyme OK, I think we can live with the regex setting for a while (however, VS removes it on regular basis, so it's a bit annoying to constantly check if the flag is still there).

[hmemcpy]

Just an FYI: modifying anything in the _Config will go away when Visual Studio rebuilds its cache (typically, when running devenv /setup, maybe in other scenarios).
Also, the manual registry tweak only works in the "main" VS hive, not any other custom ones.

A better "workaround" would be to create a enable_fsharp_parallel_builds.pkgdef file, like this:

[$RootKey$\Projects\{f2a71f9b-5d33-465a-a702-920d77279786}]
"IsMultiThreadedBuildEnabled"="1"

and place it under $RootFolder$\Common7\IDE\Extensions

Then, close VS, run devenv /updateconfiguration once from a Developer command prompt, and that's it - VS will add this automatically every time the configuration is updated.

This is a hack, but a more consistent one than manual registry manipulation.

[enricosada]

@hmemcpy an hack worthy of a wiki page, for similar issues

[latkin]

Applied to OOB branch

[dsyme]

Great!!