Visual Studio: Clean and rebuild with one macro

Question

I am trying to optimize my work with VS by creating some macros. Currently I have the following macros:

Public Sub ReleaseBuild()
    DTE.ExecuteCommand("Build.SolutionConfigurations", "Release")
    DTE.ExecuteCommand("Build.RebuildSolution")
End Sub

Public Sub DebugBuild()
    DTE.ExecuteCommand("Build.SolutionConfigurations", "Debug")
    DTE.ExecuteCommand("Build.RebuildSolution")
End Sub

What I want is to clean the solution before actually rebuilding it. What I did was:

Public Sub ReleaseBuild()
    DTE.ExecuteCommand("Build.SolutionConfigurations", "Release")
    DTE.ExecuteCommand("Build.CleanSolution")
    DTE.ExecuteCommand("Build.RebuildSolution")
End Sub

Public Sub DebugBuild()
    DTE.ExecuteCommand("Build.SolutionConfigurations", "Debug")
    DTE.ExecuteCommand("Build.CleanSolution")
    DTE.ExecuteCommand("Build.RebuildSolution")
End Sub

But I get the error bellow:

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I believe clean has to be done first before rebuilding. I know this can be done by running two separate macros, but I actually want to achieve it with one click.

Best Regards,

Kiril

The Rebuild command already does a Clean first. – Hans Passant Feb 01 '10 at 13:48 — Hans Passant, Feb 01 '10 at 13:48
How do I mark your question as answer? – Kiril Stanoev Feb 02 '10 at 11:53 — Kiril Stanoev, Feb 02 '10 at 11:53

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 02 '12 at 13:45

Rebuild does not CLEAN solution first

I know that from experience when working with a lot of projects and when I add param to method in one project and call that method from second project with implementation of additional parametat rebuild often show error considering number of parametaes in that method!

use

DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild.Clean(True)
DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild.Build(True)

not

DTE.ExecuteCommand("Build.CleanSolution")
DTE.ExecuteCommand("Build.RebuildSolution")

Visual Studio: Clean and rebuild with one macro

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