Why does VS start building when I close my application?

Question

Hello,

I have a VS 2008 solution which consists of several projects (a web application, several WCF services, a several Silverlight application, and several Silverlight controls. My problem is that every time I debug my web application, Visual Studio seems to be rebuilding everything. Not only that but if I close the browser during my debug session, Visual Studio spends several minutes building some additional dlls before becoming usable again. If, instead of closing the browser, I stop debugging from within VS, then the additional builds do not occur.

I only have a single startup project. It is the web application and it starts a page that brings up a Silverlight application.

I've spent several days looking into this and have gotten nowhere. I have selected the "only build startup project and dependencies on Run" option in Tools -> Options which seemed promising but that made absolutely no difference. I've also been through my project dependencies several times and cannot find anything obviously wrong.

Is this a common problem that others have had? Does anyone have any ideas on what could possibly cause this behavior, especially the rebuilding after closing the browser?

Thanks for any help you can provide.
Rob

Answer 1

Hi Rob,

This forum is for the support of Visual Studio installation. Since your issue is related to ASP.NET, you could post your thread on ASP.NET Forum. This will make answer searching in the forum easier and be beneficial to other community members as well.

Thank you for your understanding.

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