Visual Studio skips build

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When I try to build my project I get the following message in the build window :

========== Build: 0 succeeded or up-to-date, 0 failed, 1 skipped ==========

I tried rebuilding , then building again , but it doesn't help . Is there a way to view more detailed messages ? The "skipped" part doesn't give me any info on what's wrong . I am using Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition .

When nothing else helps, restarting Visual Studio can have surprising effects. Which suggests that among other things this could be caused by a VS bug. — Roman Starkov, Dec 28 '09 at 14:21
Possible duplicate of [How to determine why visual studio might be skipping projects when building a solution](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1319772/how-to-determine-why-visual-studio-might-be-skipping-projects-when-building-a-so) — FrequentGuest, May 11 '17 at 07:36

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 13 '08 at 20:21

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Check with the configuration manager like CMS said and make sure that you have the right platform set. A lot of the time when you use something like the MS Application Blocks the default platform is set to Itanium.

answered Dec 13 '08 at 20:21

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And what it should be set to ? – Geo Dec 13 '08 at 20:24
depends on your machine but in most cases it would win32 – Coentje Dec 13 '08 at 20:25
Or else Any CPU like in CMS' screenshot – Coentje Dec 13 '08 at 20:27
That was it ! I changed it to Win32 and the build started . Thanks ! – Geo Dec 13 '08 at 20:28
Great, Glad to be able to help. – Coentje Dec 13 '08 at 20:30

score 12 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 26 '14 at 22:37

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Check on your solution properties, then go to "Configuration Properties", and make sure that all the projects that you want to build, have the build flag checked:

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answered Dec 13 '08 at 20:15

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ulidtko · Answer 3 · 2016-12-20T13:14:15.420

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Yet another reason why this could happen (as it happened to me):

When your VS installation is missing x64 compiler toolchain, and you're building for x64.

To solve this, find MSVS in appwiz.cpl ("Programs and Features"), click "Uninstall/Change", then go to the x64 toolchain checkbox under C++ and check it.

edited Dec 20 '16 at 13:14

answered Oct 11 '12 at 13:30

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 27 '12 at 20:58

This recently happened to me when I tried to compile a project that was apparently orphaned from it's parent solution.

When I finally did get it to compile, it wouldn't work because some library from another project was missing (that was supposed to be part of the solution to get a successful build).

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered May 08 '12 at 12:02

I have found the solution *.sln file to be the problem. Reverted back to a previous version and it fixed the problem. Often the project references a project that is the actual offender, so try and build up the reference list to see where the problem is.

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 13 '08 at 20:12

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Hmmm... I remember cursing at that one once? Just guessing from my awful memory, but perhaps the output directory path doesn't exist?

answered Dec 13 '08 at 20:12

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score -3 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 13 '08 at 20:17

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I generally run into that when the PC is low on resources (RAM), after closing things the build runs fine.

answered Dec 13 '08 at 20:17

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