I have a web application project that I publish via Visual Studio 2010 to my server. My problem is that it can take very long time before it can actually publish it. May
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I am not sure if it's a suo file that is causing, but for me, this solved the problem.
After compiling, the publish will call aspnet_compiler, which actually takes longer as it is generating custom dll for all code.
But check with your VSPackages, is there any package written for some interpretation or so, that might be interrupting your publish.