Did you know… How to change the build order for your solution? - #333

For managed projects, you can control their build order via the IDE. Right-click on the project in the Solution Explorer, and select Project Dependencies.

This will pop up the Project Dependencies dialog.

Now you can say who depends on whom, but if you try to create a circular dependency, we’ll catch ya!

Looks like someone forgot the period in the sentence. =)

You can also do the same from Solution Properties, but you can’t view the build order. So maybe that justifies tomorrow’s tip.

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• Anonymous
  October 12, 2008
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• Anonymous
  October 13, 2008
  ...and by using project references instead of file references build order will be taken care of automagically. <shameless plug> And, should you so feel inclined, you can view your references using Dependency Visualizer (http://codeplex.com/dependencyvisualizer) created by me </shameless plug>

• Anonymous
  October 13, 2008
  When defining dependencies in Visual C++, the project that depends on some other project will want to link against its dependency. Even if that dependency does not produce a .lib file. How do you disable that automagic linking?

• Anonymous
  October 14, 2008
  I want to see some projects in my solution at the top. How to change <b>view</b> order of projects in solution?

• Anonymous
  October 16, 2008
  My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. Channel 9 Stuff: Anders Hejlsberg and Guy Steele- Concurrency and Language Design The Concurrency Runtime- Fine Grained Parallelism

• Anonymous
  March 05, 2009
  本篇包括tip331-tip340http://www.watch-life.net/visual-studio/visual-studio-2008-tip-day-33.html#331、让在...