Tuesday, February 02, 2021

Here, I made a thing to save time building all projects in a solution

Compilers are complicated. They don't always behave the way you'd expect.

For instance, if you have a resource that has the Copy to Output Directory setting of Copy Always this can force a whole compilation even if nothing has changed!

I've never needed this but sometimes this is the default setting for some file types. As this can lead to me waiting while projects are being unnecessarily recompiled I previously created a Visual Studio extension to detect this and warn me so I can correct offending entries and save myself time.

"Copy Always" with a line through it

Today I've updated it so that it can be used from the context menu of the Solution entry in Visual Studio's Solution Explorer.

Just a little thing but I hope it will help at least one person.

 :)


0 comments:

Post a Comment

I get a lot of comment spam :( - moderation may take a while.