Microsoft Visual Studio 2008正在与依赖项目并行构建依赖项目

Question

I have a situation where we have six projects in a VS 2008 solution. They have a dependency tree similar to the following:
A depends on B
B depends on C, D, E, F
C depends on F
D, E, and F have no dependencies.

When I look at the "Build Order" tab in Project dependencies for the solution, everything looks kosher: F, E, D, C, B, A build order.

When I execute the build from the command line (using our continuous integration tool), the build is started in the correct order; however, it is started in parallel. That is the log shows build items from F, E, D, C intermingled. Unfortunately, C completes its build before F is complete and thus errors occur. And, in fact, when fast building projects D & E complete, Visual Studio starts B and A, resulting in even more confusion as dependencies in F and C are incomplete.

How do I force Visual Studio to wait for the completion of dependencies before beginning work on sub-projects?

(Use of Visual Studio 2008 is forced on us for this project due to delivering the project on older CE environment.)

Answer 1

Looks like the dependency setting in solution level is not suggested, try to use project level dependencey? It works for the similar problem I encountered. Hope it helps.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2010/12/21/incorrect-solution-build-ordering-when-using-msbuild-exe/

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/586875/msbuild-4-0-incorrectly-processes-project-dependencies-specified-in-solution-file

ps. the referenced articles only apply to VS2010 although...

Answer 2

If parallelism doesn't matter to you, have you tried making that explicit? From your description, D, E and F can run in parallel. Can you explicitly make D depend on E and make E depend on F?

I've used multi-project solution in MSVS 2008 and never had a build order problem, but my solution's dependencies dag terminated in 1 project.