How to increase error limit in Visual Studio?

Question

When building an application in Visual Studio. It shows the following error when exceeding the error count

    fatal error C1003: error count exceeds 100; stopping compilation 

Is there a way to increase the error limit?

Answer 1

This limitation is hardcoded. Here is the post from the MSFT employee in the microsoft.public.vsnet.general group dated 2006 (look for 'Fatal Error C1003'):

Hi,

Unfortunately this 100 limitation is hard coded and cannot be changed. It's just inpractical to keep all errors information around since one error may cause other several errors.

I hope you understand the rational behind this design by our product team. However, if you still have concerns about this, please feel free to submit your feedback at
http://connect.microsoft.com/Main/content/content.aspx?ContentID=2220 which is monitored by our product team. Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely, Walter Wang ([email protected], remove 'online.') Microsoft Online Community Support"

Answer 2

I don't think so. VS basically reports all errors it encounters during compilations. There might be some erroneous parts of the code that make the compiler getting caught in an infinite "error" loop.

The limit was implemented to avoid that. In most cases the 100 errors you get are just the same error reported over and over again. What would be the sense in increasing the number of repetitions?

Maybe you can post the code snippet where the error occurs first, so we can help you fix it.