Visual Studio (2008) 'Clean Solution' Option

Question

What does this option do? It is accessible from the Build menu.

Answer 1

It deletes all the object code generated during previous compilation/build. It deletes all below kind of files:-

*.obj - object code

*.pdb - program debug databse file

*.bsc - source browser databse

*.ilk - incremental linker file

*.sbr - source browser intermediate file

*.idb - rebuild dependency file

*.lib - library file

*.exe - executable

JFYI - Even a Rebuild All command will do all this and then go on to build the complete set of source files.

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