How do I make Visual Studio automatically stop compiling after 1 (or n) errors?

Question

For example, a missing semi-colon in C++ can result in hundreds of errors. Is there a way to stop compiling when the first error is hit?

Update: apologies, just realized this was a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/134796/how-to-automatically-stop-visual-c-build-at-first-compile-error

Answer 1

Hit the stop button.

Or, apparently, you can setup it up to stop automatically: http://www.ehow.com/how_5025041_automatically-visual-studio-build-error.html