Visual Studio / MSBUILD does not update .lib files when sources are updated

Question

I have a Visual Studio solution with a library project let\'s call it libFoo, and an executable project - let\'s call it Bar which depends on

Answer 1

Make sure the project-property for "General\Target Name" and "Librarian\Output File" match, and that they match for all configurations. It's worth checking the above on the "Librarian\Command Line" page also.

Answer 2

It seems that we have encountered the same problem as the person who asked this question. There is also a bug report on Microsoft Connect.

To make things short - our intermediate folder was the same as our %temp% folder on some configurations. We solved the problem by modifying the intermediate folder of all our Visual C++ projects.