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Following is a description of commands associated with the Build menu:
❑ Build WindowsApplication1 — This command compiles the currently selected project, in this case
the project WindowsApplication1. Visual Studio examines the project’s files to see if any have
changed since the last time it compiled the project. If any of the files have changed, Visual
Studio recompiles those files to update the result.
❑ Rebuild WindowsApplication1 — This command recompiles the currently selected project from
scratch. The Build WindowsApplication1 command compiles only the files that you have modified
since they were last built. This command rebuilds every file.
❑ Clean WindowsApplication1 — This command removes temporary and intermediate files that
were created while building the application, leaving only the source files and the final result
.exe and .dll files.
❑ Publish WindowsApplication1 — This command displays the Publish Wizard shown in Figure
1-18. It can walk you through the process of making your application available for distribution
on a local file, file share, FTP site, or Web site.
Figure 1-18: The Publish Wizard helps you deploy an application.
❑ Configuration Manager — The Configuration Manager command displays the dialog shown in
Figure 1-19. You can use this dialog to indicate the type of build you want to use for each project
(debug or release), and the platforms you want to target (for example Itanium, x64, or x86). You
can also use the Build check boxes shown in the figure to determine which projects get built.
You can use this feature to skip compilation of some projects within the solution. If you find that
some parts of a solution are not compiling, check the Configuration Manager.
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