Visual Studio: project is not up to date “because ”AlwaysCreate“ was specified”?

Question

I\'ve migrated a solution from VS2008 to VS2010 (SP1).
Now one of my project never finds peace in being up-to-date. Every build have the following output:

Answer 1

For command line msbuild.exe builds you can use /verbosity:detailed and search the output for

• "will be compiled as" to find compilations
• "Source compilation required" to find links

Note: Output can be piped to file by using msbuild.exe /verbosity:detailed > output.txt

e.g.

code.cpp will be compiled as C:\path\to\header.h was modified at 18/02/2016 15:58:31.
Outputs for C:\path\to\code.cpp: