I’m wondering if bscmake is still needed for Visual Studio 2010 C++ Projects using unmamanged/managed code.
My understanding of bscmake is, that it is generating browse-files for each cpp-file in order to be able to use things in visual studio like the “class view” or “go to definition”,…
But after asking a question about bscmake myself and reading other similar questions I was unsure what bscmake is for and why you should use it.
References:
- How to get rid off “BSCMAKE error BK1500: Internal error” compile errors
- LINK : fatal error LNK1000: Internal error during BuildLibrary
So my question is:
- Is there any need to activate bscmake?
- Advantages/Disadvantages activating bscmake?
The intellisense does not need the browse information, it is used for object explorer which I have never used or needed to : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kbs280h1%28v=vs.80%29.aspx
The main disadvantages are longer builds, build errors due to being unable to build the bsc files.
The main advantages are you can view more information of your classes and objects and apparently they have added some feature called ‘live browsing’ since VS2005 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163658.aspx.
However I have to say that the intellisense has worked fine for me, plus I use VisualAssist and I have never needed the object browser and find that the additional compilation time and build errors is so frustrating for large solutions that I never have this switch on.