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Visual Studio: how to build only some projects

My VS solution has many projects. I'm currently working on only a few of them, so I only want CTRL + SHIFT + B to create a few of them. What's the best way to do this?

I was thinking about creating a new config, but I would need to test it and it seems to be wrong. I don't care if this is just a "local" setting on my machine.

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Creating a new config would be the best way to do this.



Alternatively, create a second solution file and add only the projects that interest you. We did this for several of our enterprise products, where a complete solution would download dozens of projects. The main reason we did this is to reduce the resources that VS uses. Name the solution something like "My Product - Minimum Build". You have the option to check it or not.

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Right click on Solution and select Configuration Manager. Uncheck the Create columns for each one you do not want to create.



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Go to solution explorer ( CTRL+SHIFT+L

for me), mark the projects you want to build, right-click them ( SHIFT+F10

if you are a keyboard fan) and select Build Selection

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Look in explorer - right click on projects you don't want to build and unload.

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Just right click on the project you want to build in Solution Explorer and select Build. It will only create this project (including referenced projects).

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