How does msbuild decide whether it needs to rebuild a C# library or not?
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Per subject, how does msbuild decide whether it needs to rebuild a library (ie, invoke csc), or not, when it is run against a C# project file? I imagine (but want to confirm):
- If there's no output directory, rebuild (duh :) )
- If a C# file has changed, rebuild
- If an included file marked copy-always has changed, rebuild
- or is it smart enough to not rebuild, but just copy the file to the existing output?
- If an included file marked copy-if-newer has changed, rebuild
- same question as above
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