Visual Studio Builds Projects Every Time I Run

Question

I have a .NET solution in Visual Studio 2010 with a bunch of projects. Up until recently, when I would run the startup project from within the IDE, projects would only buil

Answer 1

There can be many reasons for MSBuild to detect a need to rebuild the project.

In my case, I have a bunch of Pre-build events that generate code from XSD files. These causes the project to be rebuilt every time. And then other projects depending on this one will be rebuilt as well.