Visual Studio Builds Projects Every Time I Run

Question

I have a .NET solution in Visual Studio 2010 with a bunch of projects. Up until recently, when I would run the startup project from within the IDE, projects would only buil

Answer 1

If Visual Studio is requiring a full build every time I would first be checking my settings (already mentioned) and then I would check the conditions VS uses to identify what needs to be built. I know VS checks timestamps on all input files when checking what needs to be built. I've seen cases where a linked generated file causes all downstream dependents to build every time, even though the content of the generated file was the same. Here's a link to MSDN incremental builds.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171483.aspx

I'm not sure if there are other conditions VS uses to identify projects that need to be built.