Why does VS have to rebuild ALL of my projects every time I hit “Play”?

Question

Do I have some weird setting that is making this happen? I only want to change the text of a message box (and no other assemblies depend on that one) yet VS rebuilds all of my

Answer 1

There's some limited control over this without using Configurations if you check the option to only build startup projects and dependencies on Run.

Tools → Options → Projects and Solutions → Build and Run → Only build startup projects and dependencies on Run