Using the Build Menu
The Build menu gives you options for compiling, or building, your project or group of projects in a solution. The options for building items are demonstrated in Figure 2.17.
Figure 2.17. Build options in Visual Studio .NET.
When you build a solution, you're doing a full build on all items in the solution. A rebuild only builds items that have changed since the last build or rebuild. The Configuration Manager shown in Figure 2.18 enables you to specify the type of build you're performing. If the build is a debug build, a PDB file is created with your output assembly that contains debug information that can be used by the Visual ...
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