Creative Design & Branding
Incremental Build
Guide for optimizing MSBuild incremental builds. USE FOR: builds slower than expected on subsequent runs, 'nothing changed but it rebuilds anyway', diagnosing why targets re-execute unnecessarily, fixing broken no-op builds. Covers 8 common causes: missing Inputs/Outputs on custom targets, volatile properties in output paths (timestamps/GUIDs), file writes outside tracked Outputs, missing FileWrites registration, glob changes, Visual Studio Fast Up-to-Date Check (FUTDC) issues. Key diagnostic: look for 'Building target completely' vs 'Skipping target' in binlog. DO NOT USE FOR: first-time build slowness (use build-perf-baseline), parallelism issues (use build-parallelism), evaluation-phase slowness (use eval-performance), non-MSBuild build systems.
- Publisher / source
- dotnet/skills (found on skills.sh)
- Upstream record
- dotnet/skills
- Version
- Version 3
- Published
- Publication review
- Approved for publication
- Content fingerprint
3d8e230432df0507c646999e328bf38e271fb8343697647620457909d27f4351