I normally build my solution with MSBuild in order to keep Visual Studio responsive and save a bit of time. Right now, what I run at the command line is very simple:
MSBuild.exe /m 'C:\MyProject\MyProject.sln' Up until now, this has worked just fine. However, today I added a class to a class library project whose DLL is loaded via reflection in my app, and I couldn’t create an object of the new class. I looked in the debugger at the types contained in the DLL that I had loaded, and my new type wasn’t present. I got the same results with Reflector.
When I finally went back to the IDE, right clicked on the project, and chose ‘Rebuild’, my new type showed up in Reflector.
Is there some setting or command line flag I can set in MSBuild to make sure that new changes are caught every time?
This probably sounds like a stupid question, but are you sure the new class file was saved? Rebuild usually automatically saves all files, whereas MSBuild does not.