Changes are not happening until a rebuild is performed

Question

I have a large windows application.

Recently when I make any change in the source code and run the project normally with or without debug, the changes are not made.

I tried to rebuild it, and everything goes fine, now every change I made to the source code I have to rebuild the project then run it so that the changes are taking effect.

also I can't debug until I rebuild the solution.

my project is attached to source safe control.

any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

You frequently see this happen when a project gets deselected from the "Current Build Configuration" Dialog in visual studio. Try checking there to see if your project is unchecked. I think you can get to that menu by clicking the dropdown that says Debug/Release, and clicking manage/edit.

Answer 2

This is an old question but I happened to face a similar challenge. Well, for the benefit of someone who may experience the same here is how my problem was solved. I had a multi-project solution where some project depended on the source code from the other projects. Just before giving up and continue with the rebuild thing, I decided to check on the Build Dependencies=>Project Dependencies(Right-Click on the project). I found that the problematic code was from a Class Library that was not part of the dependencies(Unchecked). When I Included the project in the dependencies my problem vanished into thin air.