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As the title says - what are your guidelines for when you should run a "Clean solution" on your visual studio projects?

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Whenever I am having problems I can locate in 30 seconds or just before I build a release version (switch to release mode first, then clean).

jasonh
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If debugging (between breakpoints) becomes very very slow... Clean and Rebuild. If post build operations suddenly fails. and Whenever you feel like you have an extra few minutes... never hurts...

Dani
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When you updated some assemblies your solution depends on, it is sometimes necessary to clean the solution, but I have to say that VS2008 does a very good job at detecting changes to the references, so it's not really needed anymore (previous versions of VS sometimes had problems with updated references).

Philippe Leybaert

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