Automatically Build after save, for Visual Studio 2015?

Question

When using Visual Studio, I\'d like it to build my projects continuously. That is, after every save, kick off a build. I tend to work on large (35+ project) solutions, so ha

Answer 1

I started developing a new open source extension that is called BuildOnSave and does exactly that: It builds the current solution or startup project when a file is saved.

It's available on the Visual Studio Extension Gallery: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/2b31b977-ffc9-4066-83e8-c5596786acd0

May be you can give it a try. I would very much appreciate feedback.

Answer 2

There is a sample extension for Visual Commander that runs Cppcheck on the saved file. You can replace Cppcheck with DTE.ExecuteCommand("Build.BuildSolution");

Answer 3

Building on Sergey Vlasov's answer, here's the modified version of the Visual Commander extension;

using EnvDTE;
using EnvDTE80;

public class E : VisualCommanderExt.IExtension
{
    private EnvDTE80.DTE2 DTE;
    private EnvDTE.Events events;
    private EnvDTE.DocumentEvents documentEvents;
    private EnvDTE.BuildEvents buildEvents;

    public void SetSite(EnvDTE80.DTE2 DTE_, Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Package package)
    {
        DTE = DTE_;
        events = DTE.Events;
        documentEvents = events.DocumentEvents;
        buildEvents = events.BuildEvents;

        buildEvents.OnBuildProjConfigDone += OnBuildProjectDone;
        documentEvents.DocumentSaved += OnDocumentSaved;
    }

    public void Close()
    {
        documentEvents.DocumentSaved -= OnDocumentSaved;
        buildEvents.OnBuildProjConfigDone -= OnBuildProjectDone;
    }

    private void OnDocumentSaved(EnvDTE.Document doc)
    {
        if(doc.Language == "CSharp")
        {
            var sb = DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild;
            sb.Build();
        }
    }

    private void OnBuildProjectDone(string project, string projectConfig, string platform, string solutionConfig, bool success)
    {
        //OutputString("Project " + project + " " + (success ? "build" : "failed to build"));   
    }

    private void OutputString(string line)
    {
        GetOutputPane().OutputString(line + System.Environment.NewLine);
    }

    private EnvDTE.OutputWindowPane GetOutputPane()
    {
        string cppcheckPaneName = "VCmd"; 
        foreach (EnvDTE.OutputWindowPane pane in 
            DTE.ToolWindows.OutputWindow.OutputWindowPanes)
        {
            if (pane.Name == cppcheckPaneName)
                return pane;
        }
        return DTE.ToolWindows.OutputWindow.OutputWindowPanes.Add(cppcheckPaneName);
    }
}