Quickest Way To See If A Solution Builds?

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Currently, the way I check to see if my solution builds is to make a new checkout, open it in VS, and build it. This is pretty slow, I imagine there's a way to do this via the command line or batch file, and build the files in the trunk, instead of checking out a new copy.

Any help here would be appreciated, will make my life easier, thanks!

Introduce continuous integration. – Daniel Hilgarth Mar 25 '11 at 14:50 — Daniel Hilgarth, Mar 25 '11 at 14:50

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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Give this a look. The general gist is using MSBuild.

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Hi, MSBuild takes an eternity to run on my solution. I just point it to my .sln, and it's still running (has been a few minutes already!). Maybe I'm doing something wrong? – sooprise Mar 25 '11 at 14:57
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If VS is slow, and MSBuild is slow, my thoughts are that this is either a HUGE solution, or you have very costly pre/post-build operations. If you just want to see that source code compiles, try creating a build configuration that only compiles source; no installer, no publishing, no XCOPY, just source. – KeithS Mar 25 '11 at 15:03

Quickest Way To See If A Solution Builds?

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