Visual Studio, to Build or to Rebuild

by Cecille Ramirez on October 18th, 2010

For developers, for as long as the code works, no errors, runs as expected, all succeeded, what do we care about build or rebuild.

Honestly, I don’t know as well when to do which one at first until my curiosity kicks in so I look for the meaning of each. Here’s what I found out.

Build means compile and link all source files that have changed since the last build while Rebuild means compile and link all source files regardless of whether there was a change or none at all.

There are times even with this clear definition, one has to rebuild even changes have not taken place just for the sake of synching all source files.

Just remember either of this uses the compile. The next question is what exactly does compile do? Compile quickly checks for errors in the code when the rest of the source files are incomplete and may result to unsuccessful build.

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