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In Visual Studio 2005, you can right-click on a C++ project and choose Project Only > Build Only [project].
Is there any way of doing the same for a C# project? If I choose Build from the project right-click menu, it builds all the dependencies too.
Not necessarily – if the dependencies have not changed then they will not be rebuilt. If you select “ReBuild” then Visual Studio will rebuild the dependencies as well but you will find that a normal build will reuse the existing dependency assemblies if the source code for those assemblies is unchanged.
C# uses an assembly’s metadata to build against. This metadata is a part of the assembly itself and as such the entire assembly must be present at compilation time for the compiler to resolve any external types and their members.