Maintaining BizTalk Assembly Sizes

Hi Everyone
What might be the best way to maintain the size of ever-growing BizTalk assemblies in projects which continually expand?
We currently have a solution in which one of the projects holds all our schema's and it is currently 20 MB in size. I have found that the deployment of a large assembly file to BizTalk causes issues with the snap-in control. It still works but takes a while
to deploy the assembly successfully generating a few warnings about the console freezing up.
Is the best solution to split the schema files into different projects within the solution and just maintain the correct references? Could this result in some unwanted issues?
Regards
Riaz

Microsoft has already very well documented its recommendation to have projects size not exceed 10 MB for better performance and to avoid any unwanted compilation issues.
Avoid
compilation errors caused by projects that are too large
The Visual Studio compiler will not successfully compile a project if it would result in an assembly
larger than 75 megabytes. When the compiler reaches a size constraint it will emit fatal error CS0013 "Unexpected error writing metadata to file <filename>" and halt.
To avoid this problem, we recommend that projects not exceed 10 megabytes unless absolutely necessary.
Why?
Smaller projects are potentially simpler to deploy because there are fewer deployment steps. And with smaller projects the steps are more
likely to be closely related -- managing trading partner discounts or handling RFPs.
It is easier to isolate bugs, deployment issues, and other problems when using smaller projects. Finding a bug in a project with 140 schemas
and many custom maps and scripts will be more difficult than finding one in a project with only 10 schemas and a few custom maps and scripts.
Separating a large project into smaller projects can reduce complexity. The smaller projects are more manageable.
Smaller projects compile faster.
Splitting a large project with many unrelated schemas into smaller projects with strongly related schemas may result in better performance. This is because
only some of the assemblies will be loaded at a time. (This answers your question)
Refer: Considerations When Creating BizTalk Projects
Few benefits of having comparatively small size projects.
Projects based on the logical grouping of the artifacts (functionality for example), reduces the possibility of modifying aspects of your solution that aren’t related
to the problem you’re working on at the time.
Splitting of work among developer is easy.
Easier to test
It takes less time to load BizTalk solutions in Visual Studio. No out of memory issues.
Makes it possible to version artifacts separately.
A one-size-fits-all approach does not exist – you need to think about how you want to manage the solution during development, deployment and
maintenance in the context of the functionality that the solution provides to your organization or clients.
Rachit

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