VStudio 2005 Solution always rebuilding

[Dave]

Does anyone have any idea why my 2005 solution is choosing to rebuild,
everytime i execute any project within its space?

There's nothing overly strange with the project assemblies within, a
few class libraries, a couple of console apps, one custom setup
project and one windows installer project.

i've never seen this behavior before, and i've checked all the
projects' settings that i can think of.

thanks, dave

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What do you mean by "rebuild"? Are you seeing "Rebuild All started" in the
build output?

Have you modified any build dependancies, or do you have any custom build
steps or build events?

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"Dave" wrote:

Does anyone have any idea why my 2005 solution is choosing to rebuild,
everytime i execute any project within its space?

There's nothing overly strange with the project assemblies within, a
few class libraries, a couple of console apps, one custom setup
project and one windows installer project.

i've never seen this behavior before, and i've checked all the
projects' settings that i can think of.

thanks, dave

[Dave]

On Dec 12, 2:10 pm, Peter Ritchie [C# MVP] <PRS...@newsgro ups.nospam>
wrote:

What do you mean by "rebuild"? Are you seeing "Rebuild All started" in the
build output?

Have you modified any build dependancies, or do you have any custom build
steps or build events?

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"Dave" wrote:

Does anyone have any idea why my 2005 solution is choosing to rebuild,
everytime i execute any project within its space?

There's nothing overly strange with the project assemblies within, a
few class libraries, a couple of console apps, one custom setup
project and one windows installer project.

i've never seen this behavior before, and i've checked all the
projects' settings that i can think of.

thanks, dave- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

by rebuilding mean when hitting f5 i see "Build Started... / then
Building..." as it chugs through and rebuilds all my 10 projects. No
changes have been mades since the last execution.

I do have post build steps that copy app.config files from source
library directories into unit test directories, but i have similar
post build actions in other solutions that don't cause this behvior.

thanks, dave

[Doug Forster]

There *was* briefly a bug in Zone Alarm a while back (1 yr perhaps) that
somehow prevented file dates being changed. This bug had exactly the effect
you describe.
Probably not your problem but possibly worth looking outside VS if all else
fails.

Cheers
Doug Forster

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Okay, that's not a "rebuild" in Visual Studio terms.

Whenever you run the application within Visual Studio, it starts a build.
If there's nothing it thinks has changed since the last build it will simply
not compile anything. There's many reasons why Visual Studio thinks it
should recompile files upon each F5. Dependencies is one way, setting up a
custom compile tool for to build a content file is another. If I remember
correctly sometimes having setup/deployment projects may also cause more
builds than are necessary. One way of checking this is to unload the
setup/deployment project from the project to see if that affects how much
gets compiled during the debug build. Right click the project in the
Solution Explorer, and select Unload Project...

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"Dave" wrote:

On Dec 12, 2:10 pm, Peter Ritchie [C# MVP] <PRS...@newsgro ups.nospam>
wrote:

What do you mean by "rebuild"? Are you seeing "Rebuild All started" in the
build output?

Have you modified any build dependancies, or do you have any custom build
steps or build events?

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Microsoft MVP, Visual Developer - Visual C#

"Dave" wrote:

Does anyone have any idea why my 2005 solution is choosing to rebuild,
everytime i execute any project within its space?

There's nothing overly strange with the project assemblies within, a
few class libraries, a couple of console apps, one custom setup
project and one windows installer project.

i've never seen this behavior before, and i've checked all the
projects' settings that i can think of.

thanks, dave- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

by rebuilding mean when hitting f5 i see "Build Started... / then
Building..." as it chugs through and rebuilds all my 10 projects. No
changes have been mades since the last execution.

I do have post build steps that copy app.config files from source
library directories into unit test directories, but i have similar
post build actions in other solutions that don't cause this behvior.

thanks, dave

[Dave]

On Dec 12, 3:59 pm, Peter Ritchie [C# MVP] <PRS...@newsgro ups.nospam>
wrote:

Okay, that's not a "rebuild" in Visual Studio terms.

Whenever you run the application within Visual Studio, it starts a build.
If there's nothing it thinks has changed since the last build it will simply
not compile anything. There's many reasons why Visual Studio thinks it
should recompile files upon each F5. Dependencies is one way, setting up a
custom compile tool for to build a content file is another. If I remember
correctly sometimes having setup/deployment projects may also cause more
builds than are necessary. One way of checking this is to unload the
setup/deployment project from the project to see if that affects how much
gets compiled during the debug build. Right click the project in the
Solution Explorer, and select Unload Project...

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Yes i agree and i tried exactly as you suggested before posting this
question. I thought the setup project(s) could be hampering the build
process, but unloading them still caused dependencies / the solution
to think it needs rebuilding.

You're also right that f5 results in rebuilds everytime, and VStudio
has always run this way. I've just got something funky going on I
think.

[BobF]

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On Dec 12, 3:59 pm, Peter Ritchie [C# MVP] <PRS...@newsgro ups.nospam>
wrote:

>Okay, that's not a "rebuild" in Visual Studio terms.

Whenever you run the application within Visual Studio, it starts a build.
If there's nothing it thinks has changed since the last build it will
simply
not compile anything. There's many reasons why Visual Studio thinks it
should recompile files upon each F5. Dependencies is one way, setting up
a
custom compile tool for to build a content file is another. If I
remember
correctly sometimes having setup/deployment projects may also cause more
builds than are necessary. One way of checking this is to unload the
setup/deployment project from the project to see if that affects how much
gets compiled during the debug build. Right click the project in the
Solution Explorer, and select Unload Project...

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vote.http://www.peterRitchie.com/blog/
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Yes i agree and i tried exactly as you suggested before posting this
question. I thought the setup project(s) could be hampering the build
process, but unloading them still caused dependencies / the solution
to think it needs rebuilding.

You're also right that f5 results in rebuilds everytime, and VStudio
has always run this way. I've just got something funky going on I
think.

I always had this problem with C++ projects that were started with wizards
and had Help selected. The Help part of the project would build every run
regardless of whether or not any changes had been made. I started excluding
Help files from the project until I was ready to create the Help content.
YMMV

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Actually, that's a good point. I've found that having a C++ project in a
solution causes extraneous and invalid builds... I haven't tracked down
exactly why/how yet.
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"BobF" wrote:

>
"Dave" <dj*********@gm ail.comwrote in message
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On Dec 12, 3:59 pm, Peter Ritchie [C# MVP] <PRS...@newsgro ups.nospam>
wrote:

Okay, that's not a "rebuild" in Visual Studio terms.

Whenever you run the application within Visual Studio, it starts a build.
If there's nothing it thinks has changed since the last build it will
simply
not compile anything. There's many reasons why Visual Studio thinks it
should recompile files upon each F5. Dependencies is one way, setting up
a
custom compile tool for to build a content file is another. If I
remember
correctly sometimes having setup/deployment projects may also cause more
builds than are necessary. One way of checking this is to unload the
setup/deployment project from the project to see if that affects how much
gets compiled during the debug build. Right click the project in the
Solution Explorer, and select Unload Project...

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Yes i agree and i tried exactly as you suggested before posting this
question. I thought the setup project(s) could be hampering the build
process, but unloading them still caused dependencies / the solution
to think it needs rebuilding.

You're also right that f5 results in rebuilds everytime, and VStudio
has always run this way. I've just got something funky going on I
think.

I always had this problem with C++ projects that were started with wizards
and had Help selected. The Help part of the project would build every run
regardless of whether or not any changes had been made. I started excluding
Help files from the project until I was ready to create the Help content.
YMMV

[Dave]

On Dec 12, 5:10 pm, Peter Ritchie [C# MVP] <PRS...@newsgro ups.nospam>
wrote:

Actually, that's a good point. I've found that having a C++ project in a
solution causes extraneous and invalid builds... I haven't tracked down
exactly why/how yet.
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"BobF" wrote:

"Dave" <djohanns...@gm ail.comwrote in message
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On Dec 12, 3:59 pm, Peter Ritchie [C# MVP] <PRS...@newsgro ups.nospam>
wrote:
>Okay, that's not a "rebuild" in Visual Studio terms.

>Whenever you run the application within Visual Studio, it starts a build.
>If there's nothing it thinks has changed since the last build it will
>simply
>not compile anything. There's many reasons why Visual Studio thinks it
>should recompile files upon each F5. Dependencies is one way, setting up
>a
>custom compile tool for to build a content file is another. If I
>remember
>correctly sometimes having setup/deployment projects may also cause more
>builds than are necessary. One way of checking this is to unload the
>setup/deployment project from the project to see if that affects how much
>gets compiled during the debug build. Right click the project in the
>Solution Explorer, and select Unload Project...

>--
>Browsehttp://connect.microso ft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/and
>vote.http://www.peterRitchie.com/blog/
>Microsoft MVP, Visual Developer - Visual C#

Yes i agree and i tried exactly as you suggested before posting this
question. I thought the setup project(s) could be hampering the build
process, but unloading them still caused dependencies / the solution
to think it needs rebuilding.

You're also right that f5 results in rebuilds everytime, and VStudio
has always run this way. I've just got something funky going on I
think.

I always had this problem with C++ projects that were started with wizards
and had Help selected. The Help part of the project would build every run
regardless of whether or not any changes had been made. I started excluding
Help files from the project until I was ready to create the Help content.
YMMV- Hide quoted text -

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My last job had loads of managed C++ code mixed in with .NET projects
and yes I had issues of C++ projects building there also. We often
just excluded the C++ from the solution until needed as suggested
herein.

I'm only working with C# now though. Regardless, I may just unload
setup projects for now, so builds will be quick(er) at least.