First time running in Debug Mode IDE recompiles EVERYTHING?

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Ken Baltrinic - 21 Mar 2005 23:43 GMT

We are having a significant problem in that any time we restart the ide,
such as when we start in the morning, the first time we run our solution in
debug mode, the IDE recompiles everything, whether the code has changed
since last compilation or not. This is a significant issue as a full
recompile of our solution can take 10 minutes. Why does the IDE do this and
how do we keep it from doing this? It should only be necessary to recompile
those projects where code has changed or where a referenced project has been
been recompiled. What gives here?

-Ken

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Ted - 22 Mar 2005 05:26 GMT

if you can't beat 'em, get someone who'll fix it for ya,

http://www.workspacewhiz.com/OtherAddins.html#FastSolutionBuild

Ted.

> We are having a significant problem in that any time we restart the ide,
> such as when we start in the morning, the first time we run our solution
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> -Ken

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Andrew McDonald - 22 Mar 2005 20:18 GMT

"Ted" <ted@t--x.org> wrote...

> "Ken Baltrinic" <ken.baltrinic@inforeliance.com> wrote...
>> We are having a significant problem in that any time we restart the ide, such as when we start in
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> http://www.workspacewhiz.com/OtherAddins.html#FastSolutionBuild

Are you sure that will actually fix the OP's problem? That add-in seems designed to change the VS7
IDE behaviour for multiple projects in a solution, where each project is built every time you hit
run (can't you just choose "Only build startup projects and dependencies on Run" in the options to
fix this anyway?)

The OP's problem sounded like a bug I ran into but was never given a solution for, where the first
time you try to build in a session it will recompile all files in the project regardless of whether
they've changed or not. Subsequent builds are ok until you restart VS.

Andrew

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Ted - 22 Mar 2005 23:34 GMT

It also changes the way dependencies are checked, so what may be screwed up
in the Microsoft method of dependency checking may not be screwed in the
add-in's dependency checking. I'm not guaranteeing anything, but I have
found in the past that the dependency checking of the add-in is better, even
in cases where it's screwed. In any case it's worth a try.

Ted.

> "Ted" <ted@t--x.org> wrote...
>> "Ken Baltrinic" <ken.baltrinic@inforeliance.com> wrote...
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> Andrew

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Ken Baltrinic - 23 Mar 2005 16:46 GMT

Andrew,

Yes the problem you are describing is the same one we are encountering. A
plain old build also exhibits the problem. Obviously, when you run a
project, it does a build and that is where we wind up waiting forever. I
will take a look at Teds addin though as well.

--Ken

> "Ted" <ted@t--x.org> wrote...
>> "Ken Baltrinic" <ken.baltrinic@inforeliance.com> wrote...
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> Andrew

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