build-process

I have a large .sln file with many projects. I just made a change in project A and it builds nine other projects that project A references, but that had no code change. Is there a trick to speed this process up? Divide and conquer: Limit the amount of build time that goes on in your solution by creating additional solutions that contain logical subsets of projects you're working on. This limits your scope and will speed up builds. See the The Partitioned Single Solution Model in this MSDN article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee817674.aspx Key quote from the article: Separate

We know that Xcode maintains environment variable of ${TARGET_NAME} but how to access this variable in objective-C code ? What I have tried ? I have added "TARGET_NAME=${TARGET_NAME}" this in Preprocessor macros section of Build Settings. But now I am not sure how to use this variable "TARGET_NAME" as a string in objective-C code. In my case product name and target name are different so, no chance to use that. I tried to access using #ifdef TARGET_NAME NSLog(@"TargetIdentifier %@",TARGET_NAME); #endif This code is giving error like "Use of undeclared identifier 'myapptargetname'" You can add

I am relatively new to the world of Java and Maven, but I couldn't imagine starting a new Java project without using Maven. The idea of providing a human-readable project model is something that I would imagine is universally desirable across many languages. This is especially true when your application relies upon numerous external libraries. Are there any other project management or build tools for languages other than Java that are similar in nature to Maven; that is, that provide a mechanism for the project maintainer to specify dependencies and build order? Rich Seller Here's some I know

I found the following information about the Microsoft Visual Studio "extra" files: What is the purpose of the vshost.exe file? My question is, is there a way that I can NOT have the .pdb, .manifest and vshost.exe files from being made? Or are they absolutely necessary? I just noticed that after debugging it, it's still showing up as a running process in my machine which worries me since I already closed it. Switch to the Release configuration. Then Project + Properties, Debug tab, untick the "Enable the Visual Studio hosting process" option. Build + Clean, you can delete anything that's left

This is probably easy but I am getting stuck: when I build a solution in Visual Studio - how do extract the exact cmd line for the current build command in order to be able to do the same build from VisualStudio console? In the output window I can see the single projects in the solution build commands but not the one for the whole solution. I am on VS2005. Any help would be appreciated In addition to what @JohnIdol says correctly, I've found that you need to setup a number VS environment variables. I don't have the name of the batch file in front of me, but you can modify or 'I think' use it.