I am debugging someone else's work and the solution is quite large. When I try to build the entire thing, several projects within the solution don't build and just skip. Viewing the output window during the build process says:
1>------ Skipped Rebuild All: Project: pr1lib ------
How can I determine why these builds were skipped? I am unable to find additional output.
This is with VS2008 and the solution is comprised of c# and c++ code.
The visual studio 2008 , it can be because 64 bit compiler wouldn't have installed.
Control Panel --> Programs and Features -> Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 professional --> [double click]
On Visual Studio Dialog
Next --> Add/ remove Features --> (Under) Visual C++ --> (select) x64 compiler and Tools
make sure you do a "clean" first .. Visual Studio typically won't re-build a project that isn't out of date (as far as it's concerned) and will just re-use the object code it already has.
Running a clean should clear out all previously compiled code and VS shouldn't skip the project (assuming the configuration manager has the projects selected to build ... see previous answer).
Hope that helps.