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Use the drop-downs and check boxes in the grid to select features for the solution’s projects. For exam-
ple, if the solution contains several projects, you could flag some to compile using the Debug configura-
tion and others to compile using the Release configuration. If you then rebuilt the solution, you would
be able to debug some of the projects but not all of them. This approach may be useful if you want to
give some of the projects to customers in their release versions while you keep working on others.
If you uncheck a project’s Build box, that project is excluded from any builds. If you build the solution, it
is not compiled. Visual Studio writes its results into the Output window and counts the skipped project
in its final summary line. The following line shows an example where one project was compiled and one
skipped.
========== Build: 1 succeeded or up-to-date, 0 failed, 1 skipped ==========
Debug
The Debug menu, shown in Figure 1-21, contains commands that help you debug a program. These
commands help you run the program in the debugger, move through the code, set and clear breakpoints,
and generally follow the code’s execution to see what it’s doing and hopefully what it’s doing wrong.
Figure 1-21: The Debug menu contains commands for debugging an application.
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