What is “incremental linking”?

Question

I\'ve looked at Microsoft\'s MSDN and all around the web, but I still haven\'t been able to get a really good idea of what it is.

Does it mean the completed program

Answer 1

Also, quite importantly, incremental link is a prerequisite for Edit&Continue - possibily to edit your code and recompile it on the fly, without restarting.

So it is a good thing to have on debug builds, but not release builds.