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  • eddyman592
    New Member
    • Apr 2007
    • 20
    #1

    Question about rebuilding solution

    Ok, i'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, and if it's not i'm sorry. I recently had to reformat my C drive, and i had to reinstall Visual Studio 2005. Before I reinstalled it, the build menu had all kinds of options like build, rebuild, clean and several more. Now all it has is build Project and Publish Project. How do I get rebuild and clean back?

    Thanks.
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    • SammyB
      Recognized Expert Contributor
      • Mar 2007
      • 807
      #2
      Originally posted by eddyman592
      Ok, i'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, and if it's not i'm sorry. I recently had to reformat my C drive, and i had to reinstall Visual Studio 2005. Before I reinstalled it, the build menu had all kinds of options like build, rebuild, clean and several more. Now all it has is build Project and Publish Project. How do I get rebuild and clean back?

      Thanks.
      Sounds like you installed Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition instead of Visual Studio. What does your Help, About menu say?

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        • eddyman592
          New Member
          • Apr 2007
          • 20
          #3
          It is the professional version, not the express. I heard somthing about opening the solution instead of the project, but i'm not sure what thats means....

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            • SammyB
              Recognized Expert Contributor
              • Mar 2007
              • 807
              #4
              Originally posted by eddyman592
              It is the professional version, not the express. I heard somthing about opening the solution instead of the project, but i'm not sure what thats means....
              Solution files are *.sln: they are the ones to open.

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                • eddyman592
                  New Member
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 20
                  #5
                  Ok, I checked. .sln is the file type that i'm opening, yet i only have the two options to build or publish. Any ideas?

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                    • SammyB
                      Recognized Expert Contributor
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 807
                      #6
                      Originally posted by eddyman592
                      Ok, I checked. .sln is the file type that i'm opening, yet i only have the two options to build or publish. Any ideas?
                      It will be Tuesday before I can check: only have Express here at home.

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                        • Killer42
                          Recognized Expert Expert
                          • Oct 2006
                          • 8429
                          #7
                          In the meantime Eddy, it might help to drop a question into the .Net forum.

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                            • SammyB
                              Recognized Expert Contributor
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 807
                              #8
                              Originally posted by eddyman592
                              Ok, i'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, and if it's not i'm sorry. I recently had to reformat my C drive, and i had to reinstall Visual Studio 2005. Before I reinstalled it, the build menu had all kinds of options like build, rebuild, clean and several more. Now all it has is build Project and Publish Project. How do I get rebuild and clean back?

                              Thanks.
                              As you said, you are missing a bunch of menu items. I did some hard digging & hopefully found the solution at http://groups.google.com/group/micro...f3a40c913cfe96

                              Petar Repac says to:
                              1. open command prompt
                              2. go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE (if you installed on some other location path will be somewhat different)
                              3. run "devenv.exe /setup"
                              "Forces Visual Studio to merge the resource metadata that describes
                              menus, toolbars, and command groups from all VSPackages available."

                              http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ex6a2fad.aspx


                              Please let us know if this works! --Sam

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                                • eddyman592
                                  New Member
                                  • Apr 2007
                                  • 20
                                  #9
                                  Ok, it worked and it didn't. I did exactly what your post said and it didn't work. The things aren't up in the menu. However, after finding out about that whole command line thing, I looked into and i can now rebuild through the command prompt. It's not perfect, but i'll take it for now. Thanks for your help. Any more ideas about actually getting the things in the menu though?

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                                    • MMcCarthy
                                      Recognized Expert MVP
                                      • Aug 2006
                                      • 14387
                                      #10
                                      This question has also been posted in the .NET forum.

                                      http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread651350.html

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