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Do I have some weird setting that is making this happen? I only want to change the text of a message box (and no other assemblies depend on that one) yet VS rebuilds all of my projects and it takes forever. Any ideas?
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For the “Rebuild” option, it will “Clean” then “Build” one project at a time in the set build order.
To build, rebuild, or clean an entire solution Choose Build All to compile the files and components within the project that have changed since the most recent build. Choose Rebuild All to "clean" the solution and then builds all project files and components. Choose Clean All to delete any intermediate and output files.
You can find out what is causing Visual Studio to think each project is out of date, and then address the issue directly.
You will get a huge amount of output in the output window detailing exactly what the build is doing. Before building each project it will print out why it thinks it is out of date. An example of such output is:
Project 'Foo' is not up to date. Input file 'c:\Bar.cs' is modified after output file
These "not up to date" messages should point you to the real cause of the unnecessary builds, which you can then fix.
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