Use msbuild and pass the Clean and Rebuild targets:

    msbuild path\to\solution\yoursolution.sln /t:Clean;Rebuild

Or if you only want to rebuild a single project:

    msbuild path\to\project\yourproject.csproj /t:Clean;Rebuild

msbuild is available in the Windows SDK or the Visual Studio Command prompt.

    MSBuild.exe MultiProjectSolution.sln /t:&quot;ProjectName:clean&quot;

Will clean only the specified project in your solution.

Just a small refinement for using in PowerShell:

    pathTo\MSBuild.exe pathTo\solutionfile.sln /target:&quot;clean;Build&quot;

[Source For Different Target][1]


  [1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/msbuild/msbuild-targets?view=vs-2019

Cleaning up specific projects:

    msbuild MyProjectFile1 /t:Clean
    msbuild MyProjectFile2 /t:Clean
    ...

This has to be repeated for all projects you need to clean, because MSBuild only accepts single project on command line.

Build whole solution incrementally:

    msbuild MySolutionFile

Note, that this will build default configuration/platform for the projects and solution, which is often Debug/AnyCPU or Debug/Win32. If you want specific configuration/platform, you have to add parameters like this: `/p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64` to every msbuild command line.

I want to search for a particular class file among many jar files without giving the location of each jar file.

Is this possible with a simple command?

I tried this command:

    grep Hello.class *.jar

Which did not return a list of jars containing the class. Then I ran the command:

    grep Hello.class /full/path/of/jar/file/*.jar

Which did return the relevant jar file.  Is there a better way?

Linux cmd to search for a class file among jars irrespective of jar path

Let&#39;s say I&#39;ve got two files **class.php** and **page.php**

**class.php**
    
	&lt;?php 
		class IUarts {
			function __construct() {
				$this-&gt;data = get_data(&#39;mydata&#39;);
			}
    	}
    ?&gt;


That&#39;s a very rudamentary example, but let&#39;s say  I want to use:

	$vars = new IUarts(); 
	print($vars-&gt;data);

in my page.php file; how do I go about doing that? If I do `include(LIB.&#39;/class.php&#39;);` it yells at me and gives me `Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class IUarts in /dir/class.php on line 4`

How to use a PHP class from another file?

Suppose I need to build a whole solution (which has multiple projects) in command line, is it possible to run a clean build for a particular projects and run an incremental build for the rest of the project?

Thanks.

How to run a clean build for a particular project from a solution in visual studio

<p>Suppose I need to build a whole solution (which has multiple projects) in command line, is it possible to run a clean build for a particular projects and run an incremental build for the rest of the project?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>


I&#39;m using visual studio 2012 in the first days when I want to stop application in IDE, application was still running on IIS Express, I could browse and work with running application, but now I can&#39;t. IIS Immediately shutting-down application if I press stop button. Since I remember I didn&#39;t make any changes in setting. How should I do that running same as first days.

IIS Express Immediately shutting-down running site after stopping web application

In my solution I have three projects: Console application, class library, and a website project. 
The Show All Files button is visible on the console and class library project, but soon as I click on the website project the button disappears. 

I am running Visual Studio 2012.

Visual Studio 2012 &quot;Show All Files&quot; button missing

I have an assembly that I have made which is very specific to my team at my company. I want to be able to use NuGet to make this assembly avaiable to other projects that my team and similar teams at my company are working on. However, the assembly isn&#39;t really code that I want to share with the world. 

I know with Maven, you can create local repositories and source packages from a local repo. Does NuGet support similar functionality? Is there a way with NuGet to specify either a local repository or to have private packages?

Can I publish a private NuGet package?

How do I disable messages in the debug output windows of visual studio 2012?
&gt; The thread &#39;&lt;No Name&gt;&#39; (0x2360) has exited with code 0 (0x0)

Since the count of such messages is so high they bother me and hide my custom debugging information written using `Debug.Write`. Should I highlight my custom debugging information using red instead?

Disable noise messages in debug output windows - visual studio 2012

I am creating a very large project (a few thousand lines) and so would rather not use Notepad++. An IDE would make it so much easier. I have experience with Microsoft Visual Studio and love it. Is there some easy way to use Cygwin&#39;s GCC from within Microsoft Visual Studio? 

Alternately, are there any other good Windows IDEs for GCC besides NetBeans and Eclipse? (I hate both of them with a passion.)

How to use GCC with Microsoft Visual Studio?

I have a fixed-width-field file which I&#39;m trying to sort using the UNIX (Cygwin, in my case) sort utility.

The problem is there is a two-line header at the top of the file which is being sorted to the bottom of the file (as each header line begins with a colon).

Is there a way to tell sort either &quot;pass the first two lines across unsorted&quot; or to specify an ordering which sorts the colon lines to the top - the remaining lines are always start with a 6-digit numeric (which is actually the key I&#39;m sorting on) if that helps.

Example:

    :0:12345
    :1:6:2:3:8:4:2
    010005TSTDOG_FOOD01
    500123TSTMY_RADAR00
    222334NOTALINEOUT01
    477821USASHUTTLES21
    325611LVEANOTHERS00

should sort to:

    :0:12345
    :1:6:2:3:8:4:2
    010005TSTDOG_FOOD01
    222334NOTALINEOUT01
    325611LVEANOTHERS00
    477821USASHUTTLES21
    500123TSTMY_RADAR00


Is there a way to ignore header lines in a UNIX sort?

How can I use the curl command line program to send an email from a gmail account?

I have tried the following:

    curl -n --ssl-reqd --mail-from &quot;&lt;sender@gmail.com&gt;&quot; --mail-rcpt &quot;&lt;receiver@server.tld&gt;&quot; --url smtps://smtp.gmail.com:465 -T file.txt

With file.txt being the email&#39;s contents, however, when I run this command I get the following error:

    curl: (67) Access denied: 530

Is it possible to send an email from an account that is hosted by a personal server, still using curl? Does that make the authentication process easier?

Using curl to send email

If from inside a bat file you called another batch file but still had a few remaining operations to complete, how can you make sure that the call to first bat file will after completion or error, will return to the file that called it in the first instance?

Example:

    CD:\MyFolder\MyFiles
    Mybatfile.bat
    
    Copy afile toHere

or

    CD:\MyFolder\MyFiles
    CALL Mybatfile.bat
    
    COPY afile toHere

What is the difference between using `CALL` or `START` or none of them at all? Would this have any impact on whether it would return for the results of the copy command or not?

To &quot;Call&quot; or &quot;Not to Call&quot; a batch file?

I&#39;m using the `subprocess.Popen` call, and in another question I found out that I had been misunderstanding how Python was generating arguments for the command line.  

**My Question**  
Is there a way to find out what the actual command line was?  

Example Code :-

    proc = subprocess.popen(....)
    print &quot;the commandline is %s&quot; % proc.getCommandLine()

How would you write `getCommandLine` ?

output the command line called by subprocess?

I have downloaded &quot;jenkins-1.501.zip&quot; from http://jenkins-ci.org/content/thank-you-downloading-windows-installer . 

I have extracted zip file and installed Jenkins on Windows 7 successfully. Jenkins runs at `http://localhost:8080/` well. I want to stop Jenkins service from console. How can I do that? What&#39;s the way to start and restart through console/command line?

Start/Stop and Restart Jenkins service on Windows

So, as the title reads, I have a VS2010 solution with ~50 projects in it right now. If I make a change to a &quot;top level&quot; project that nothing references then VS still rebuilds all 50 projects. I&#39;m running Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate without any add-ons. I am using ILMerge to consolidate all of the projects into a single file.

I have verified this by checking the time stamps of the lower level dlls and see that they are indeed rebuilt even though their code wasn&#39;t touched.

I&#39;ve read all responses and comments for:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5345784/visual-studio-2008-keeps-rebuilding

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2991972/visual-studio-keeps-building-everything

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6901683/strange-vs2010-build-glitch-occurs-in-my-solution?lq=1

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5429781/reasons-for-c-sharp-projects-to-rebuild-in-visual-studio

But most of them just offer suggestions on unloading projects to speed up build times but nothing concrete as to a fix. I&#39;m trying to figure out why VS thinks these dependent projects need to be rebuilt when they don&#39;t and fix it.

I&#39;ve turned on &#39;Tools &gt; Options &gt; Projects and Solutions &gt; Build and Run &gt; Only build startup projects and dependencies on run&#39; but with no effect.

Also, if I just rebuild a &quot;mid-level&quot; project that only has 8 (in)direct dependencies then it still builds all 8 projects even though ILMerge isn&#39;t invoked and none of the dependent projects have been modified.

Thank you everyone for any insight you may be able to provide.

**Added**

To test some of the suggestions I created a new WinForms project from scratch. I then created two new projects inside that solution. I copied all of the code and resources (not project file) from my two &#39;lowest level&#39; projects into the two brand new projects (I did this by dropping the files and folders from Explorer onto the project in Visual Studio).

The lowest project, let&#39;s call it **B**, did not reference any other project. The next project, **A**, referenced **B** only. So once I added the required .NET and external assembly references to the projects then the solution would build.

I then had my new WinForm project reference **A** and did a full build. So the ref chain is:

**WinForm** -&gt; **A** -&gt; **B**

I then modified **WinForm** _only_ and did a standard build (F6). As before, Visual Studio rebuilt all three projects.

After some systematic eleminiation of source files in project **B** I found that if I removed my `Resources.Designer.cs` and `Resources.resx` (and commented out the code that made use of the `.Properties.Resources` object of those resources) then a modification of **WinForm** would no longer rebuild the entire solution and would only rebuild **WinForm**.

Adding the `Resources.resx` and `Resources.Designer.cs` back to project **B** (but leaving the referenced code commented out so that nothing was making use of the resources) would re-introduce the full build behavior.

To see if perhaps my resource files were corrupted, I deleted them again and then created a new one (via Project Properties -&gt; Resources) and re-added the same resource as before, which was a single Excel file. With this setup the full rebuild would still occur.

I then removed the single resource, but left the resource file in project **B**. Even with no resources added, but the resource file still in the project, the full (unneeded) rebuild would occur.

It appears that just having a resource file added to a (.NET 3.5) project will cause Visual Studio 2010 to always rebuild that project. Is this a bug or intended/expected behavior?

Thanks all again!

Visual Studio Rebuilds unmodified projects

Building my Jenkins/MSBuild solution gives me this error


    c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Common.targets(483,9): error : 
    The OutputPath property is not set for project &#39;&lt;projectname&gt;.csproj&#39;.  Please check to
    make sure that you have specified a valid combination of Configuration and Platform 
    for this project.  Configuration=&#39;Latest&#39;  Platform=&#39;AnyCPU&#39;.  You may be seeing this 
    message because you are trying to build a project without a solution file, and have
    specified a non-default Configuration or Platform that doesn&#39;t exist for this project. 
    [C:\&lt;path&gt;\&lt;projectname&gt;.csproj]

Any ideas?

**EDIT**

I have this in my .csproj file

      &lt;PropertyGroup Condition=&quot;&#39;$(Configuration)|$(Platform)&#39; == &#39;Latest|AnyCPU&#39;&quot;&gt;
        &lt;OutputPath&gt;bin\Latest\&lt;/OutputPath&gt;
      &lt;/PropertyGroup&gt;

The OutputPath property is not set for project

I have a VS 2012 web project /sln that I am trying to build in TeamCity. it uses .NET 4.5 which is installed on TeamCity.

The TeamCity server has **VS  2010 installed only**.

I get this error when the build runs:

    C:\BuildAgent\work\d5bc4e1b8005d077\CUSAAdmin.Web\CUSAAdmin.Web.csproj(799, 3): 
    error MSB4019: 
    The imported project 
        &quot;C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets&quot; was not found. 
     Confirm that the path in the &lt;Import&gt; declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk. Project CUSAAdmin.Web\CUSAAdmin.Web.csproj failed. 
     Project CUSAAdmin.sln failed. 


It is trying to use Visual Studio 2012 (v11.0) to build. 

I have set the **VisualStudioVersion** to be **10** in the **build.xml** though??

     &lt;Target Name=&quot;BuildPackage&quot;&gt;
       &lt;MSBuild Projects=&quot;CUSAAdmin.sln&quot; ContinueOnError=&quot;false&quot; 
         Targets=&quot;Rebuild&quot; 
          Properties=&quot;Configuration=$(Configuration); VisualStudioVersion=10.0&quot;  /&gt;


As well inside the project it is defaulting to VS2010

      &lt;PropertyGroup&gt;
    &lt;VisualStudioVersion Condition=&quot;&#39;$(VisualStudioVersion)&#39; == &#39;&#39;&quot;&gt;10.0&lt;/VisualStudioVersion&gt;
    &lt;VSToolsPath 
        Condition=&quot;&#39;$(VSToolsPath)&#39; == &#39;&#39;&quot;&gt;$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)&lt;/VSToolsPath&gt;

MSBuild in TeamCity of Visual Studio 2012 solution

I&#39;m packaging example code for an SDK distribution.  In the distribution, the relative path from code to the SDK assemblies is different from the build machine.  For example:

**Distribution**

    csharp/bin/assembly.dll
    example/ex1/ex1.csproj

**Build Machine**

    foo/sdk/csharp/bin/assembly.dll
    bar/baz/quux/ex1/ex1.csproj

Assume that I can&#39;t move anything.  Is there a way I can instruct `ex1.csproj` to look in both

`../../csharp/bin/` **and** `../../../../foo/sdk/csharp/bin/` for `assembly.dll`?

In C++ I&#39;d put the dependency path in a standalone property sheet and distribute a different version with the SDK.  But C# doesn&#39;t have property sheets, and I don&#39;t want to maintain two versions of the full project.

I&#39;ve seen [this question][1] which states that I can&#39;t use multiple `&lt;HintPath&gt;` tags, so I&#39;m looking for another way to approximate the same behavior.


  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/462564/hintpath-on-a-added-reference-in-visual-studio

.csproj multiple hint paths for an assembly

The visual studio 2012 on my PC get the following error message when preview in the &quot;Public Web&quot;. I need to restart VS to get rid of the error message.

&gt; Invoke build failed due to exception &#39;Specified condition &quot;$(PackageAsSingleFile)&quot; evaluates to &quot;&quot; instead of a boolean.  C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets&#39;

What caused the error?

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