Using Incredibuild for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Earlier

Note: Support for Visual Studio 2008 and earlier has been deprecated as these versions are no longer supported by Microsoft.

Incredibuild is fully integrated into the Visual Studio development environment. Builds can be run, stopped, and reviewed using the Incredibuild menu and toolbar commands, as well as their equivalent keyboard shortcuts. By default, Incredibuild only distributes execution of C/C++ compilation tasks and MIDL tasks. You can distribute custom build steps, custom build rules, and build events.

Building the current project in Visual Studio .NET, 2005 and 2008

  1. Make sure that the target project is selected in the Project Explorer and that the required configuration is selected.

  2. Go to Incredibuild > Build Solution or Build Project to build the current project incrementally, or select Rebuild Project to clean all intermediate and output files and then build the project. The Build Monitor opens, displaying the build's output and progress.

Note: Selecting Build Solution or Rebuild Solution performs a build operation on all selected project configurations in the active solution configuration.

Building the current project in Visual Studio 6.0

  1. Make sure that the target project is the active project and that the desired configuration is selected.

  2. Go to Incredibuild > Build(for an incremental build) or Rebuild (to clean all intermediate and output files before building). The Build Monitor opens as a docked window, displaying the build's output and progress.

Note: Selecting Build Active Project Only or Rebuild Active Project Only performs a build operation on the active project alone, ignoring its sub-projects.

Cleaning the current project

Incredibuild provides its own clean operation, which also cleans intermediate files created by Incredibuild during builds.

  • Go to Incredibuild > Clean or select Clean Active Project Only to clean the active project's folders, ignoring its sub-projects.

Stopping a build in progress

  • Go to Incredibuild > Stop Build to stop Incredibuild's operation (this also stops a currently running Visual Studio build).

Batch operations

All of the above operations can be performed on a group of projects and on several solution configurations in a single operation using Batch Build.

  1. Go to Incredibuild > Batch Build....

  2. Select one or more solution/project combinations.

  3. Click any of the action buttons (Build, Rebuild, or Clean) to perform the operation on all of the selected configurations.

Reviewing build results

  • To display the Build Monitor for the currently running build or for the last build executed by Incredibuild, go to Incredibuild > Open Build Monitor.

Modifying Incredibuild Agent settings