Build Dependencies in Visual Studio 2008

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Is there an easy way to find out why visual studio wants to rebuild my executable i.e. what source files have changed to require a rebuild? I would like to know without actually regenerating the executable (and changing its build date).

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Posted 19-Feb-13 9:18am

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Andreas Gieriet 19-Feb-13 15:25pm

What language? Depends very much on the language in use since that defines how dependencies are handled.
E.g. C# is completely different to C/C++.
Cheers
Andi

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Feb-13 15:33pm

If Visual Studio is used, all is done via MSBuild technology, no matter what languages are used. Project files describe dependencies and everything else in declarative way, time stamps are used...
The user can integrate any 3rd-party development tools.
Please see my answer.
—SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Feb-13 15:31pm

Why?
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-02-19T09:31:00

This is all done automatically, through MSBuild technology. The system uses both dependencies and time stamps, so incremental build never allows to rebuild anything which does not need rebuild. You can learn how to write custom project files and define dependencies, but you would only need it to create custom build steps (so called "Tasks" using MSBuild APIs, which are programmed as .NET assemblies), integrate third-party compilers or other build utilities, and for other advances purposes.

Please see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0k6kkbsd.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ms164311.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171466.aspx[^].

Please see my past answers:
How to use cs class in a VB web application[^],
What is "obj" folder used for when I created a C# project?[^].

—SA