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Is building a specific project in a solution supposed to work?

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Begin by reproducing the reported msbuild.exe command with a solution and a project target, then compare the output with the linked MSBuild documentation. Done means determining whether the zero cache activity and NaN ratio are intended, and documenting or correcting the behavior accordingly.

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Description

When I run msbuild.exe /t:AProjectInThatSolution /graph /reportfileaccesses the output looks like

  1. Starts up and runs the plugin like usual
  2. Build succeeds, 0 cache hits, 0 cache misses, NaN cache hit ratio

Is this the intended behaviour?

MSBuild page describing how to build a specific project in a solution https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/msbuild/how-to-build-specific-targets-in-solutions-by-using-msbuild-exe?view=visualstudio

Dominant language
C#
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Merged PRs (30d)
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