Visual Studio 2013 Solution building not in build order

Question

I am having problems getting my C# Solution to build \"Fresh\". If I clean the solution and build it again it will not build (I can do it a few times and it will build). It

Answer 1

I had this issue. In my case, the solution's project build order, as determined by VS.Net, was not correct. Specifically, my web project was listed above three of its dependencies.

These three dependencies were listed under in the References node of the web project in the Solution Explorer. However, in the dialogue Project Dependencies, the web project did not depend on any project.

Also, I noticed that the web project had a small blue exclamation mark, with hoover-over message "The Web project '' requires SQL Server Express, which is not installed on this computer. ...". After fiddling with the web.config, based on ASP.NET Web Api: Project requires SQL Server Express and reloading the project, the exclamation disappeared and the project dependencies were correctly checked in the dialogue Project Dependencies and the build order reflected this correctly. However, when I reverted the changes to the web.config, as a test, the dependencies were not removed, so I am quite unsure what fixed my issues.

Anyway, in the dialogue Project Dependencies, you can manually check any project which was not automatically identified as a dependency.