Changes in referenced projects are not seen until restart

[vasily-kirichenko]

I think it's a huge bug.

[majocha]

I've noticed it will refresh when you click and focus the editor.
Still, it's not what one would expect.

It's bad already that you need to save the changes in one project to get them propagated to other project.

[vasily-kirichenko]

@majocha things are much worse. Restarting VS does not help (!). Rebuild does not help. Only deleting obj and bin folders does. And it is not reproduced on Debug configuration, only on Release (I mean the configuration that the test solution uses, not VFT is build on).

[majocha]

New project system desperately needed.

[vasily-kirichenko]

:) I strongly believe someone is working on it right now. Right now.

[dsyme]

@vasily-kirichenko I would have thought the DLL timestamps of the newly compiled DLL were being checked, causing a recheck in the dependent file. I don't think it's a project system bug. This is the incremental builder or something else in the process of rechecking files.

Any chance you could you make a minimal repro with exact steps?

[dsyme]

I believe this is fixed by #3025, at least for the cases I've been looking at. I've manually tested on an EXE project referencing a DLL library project, and changes in the library project such as

• remove file from library project (correctly makes red squiggly appear automatically in open file of EXE project)
• add file to library project (correctly makes red squiggly disappear automatically in open file of EXE project)
• remove reference from library project
• add reference to library project

There may be additional cases such as renames and others not covered by that, where we need to listen to RDT

[vasily-kirichenko]

I've tested it on a small solution, it's fixed in #3025.

[dsyme]

Fixed by #3025