When rebuilding of project is required in the C# projects

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In a project "A" I am using the references of other projects(B & C). If there is a minor change in the logic or new member functions are added to the class without changing the interfaces then do we require to build the project A.

If there is a File version of Assembly version got changed for B or C, do we need rebuild the project A

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Posted 2-Dec-19 22:56pm

Coder969

Updated 2-Dec-19 23:40pm

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I am using third party libraries in my project. If they give fixes in those projects and if they change the file version of their projects, do I need to rebuild my project as well.

That depends on how your references in project A look like, if SpecificVersion is true then you will have to rebuild A.
Example from .csproj file:

<Reference Include="nunit.framework, Version=2.6.0.11240, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=96d09a1eb7f44a77, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
  <SpecificVersion>False</SpecificVersion>
  <HintPath>\Common\nunit.framework.dll</HintPath>
</Reference>

Is not version dependent, so it probably does not need a rebuild (if the dll's API has no breaking changes).

Posted 2-Dec-19 23:40pm

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Ashutosh Gpt · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-02T23:11:00

it is also depends on how you have set the output directory of each project.
if A is depends on B and C, modifying just member/ properties etc does not required to rebuild the project A. you can just build B and C.
if C & B has interfaces which was used in project A that also just required to build project A not rebuild.
if C and B output directory is different than project A and you are referring this to project A, modifying anything in B and C requires to build project A.

Rebuilding of solution will clean and then build the solution from scratch, ignoring anything it’s done before. normally it does not requires until and unless something is went wrong on your previous steps.

more information you can refer code project article
Understanding Clean, Build and Rebuild in Visual Studio[^]