Can Visual Studio prompt before rebuilding?

Question

Any way to have Visual Studio prompt before rebuilding, or any other way to make it easier to avoid hitting "Rebuild" instead of "Build"?

I've wasted countless hours when I right click on a project and select "Rebuild" on accident when I meant to click "Build".

This is for a native C++ solution.

Answer 1

Visual Studio 2010 allows for customization of the menus. You can remove the "Rebuild" item from the Project context menu. Or you may want to just move the "Rebuild" command away from the "Build" command so that you will be less likely to accidentally hit the wrong item.

From VS 2010,

• Select the Tools Menu
• Select Customize...
• Select the Commands tab
• Select the "Context menu" radio button and select "Project and Solution Context Menus | Project"
• Select "Rebuild" and move it or remove it.

Answer 2

As far as I know, there is no way to enable a confirmation for performing a project or solution rebuild.

Your best option is to move or delete the "Rebuild" menu item on the context menu.

1. Right click the menu/toolbar area in VS and select "Customize..."
2. Click on the the "Commands" tab.
3. Select the "Context menu" radio button.
4. Find "Project and Solution Context Menus | Project" in the dropdown list.
5. Click on the "Rebuild" menu item in the context menu representation and perform the desired action (delete, move up or down, begin a new group, etc.).

To reset the menu back to the default state, click the "Reset all" button.