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TSDrake
TSDrake

Reputation: 191

Build csproj on Visual Studio without building references

Lets say you have a solution with projects A and B. A needs to B be build at least once so in order to be built with MSBuild i need it to be some kind of reference to setup the order of build. But setting up the projects as a reference made it build always together and project B its slow to build while A alone its fast and its the one I need to build multiple times from Visual Studio.

Is there a way to still make MSBuild take the order B -> A on building while beeing capable of build only A from Visual Studio?

I tried to setup a .proj for MSBuild but i kinda dont really understand how it works. I tested putting the reference from .sln with

ProjectSection(ProjectDependencies)

and in .csproj with

   <ProjectReference Include="..\B.csproj">
        <ReferenceOutputAssembly>false</ReferenceOutputAssembly>

edit: The reason why B needs to be built from time to time its that it can change too and its part of a repository and bin needs to be in .gitignore

edit2: In my case i was modifying some .proj that builds a lot of sln with this exact struct and in the end the "better" aproach was just modifying the sln file to put the project B first and done. 🙃

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