I don’t remind where I originally got this Tip, but it’s proven to be very useful to save lots of time when you have very big solution and your projects are failing to build.

I am reporting it here as a note to myself because I really missed it when I had to install fresh copies of Visual Studio on new machines.

It’s basically a simple piece of macro you can add to the Visual Studio ‘EnvironmentEvents’ module:

• Go to Tools -> Macro -> Macros IDE...
• Look for MyMacros \ EnvironmentEvents in the project explorer tree.
• Add this piece of code inside the module:
  

  ' A project failed to compile, so cancel the build and beep
  Private Sub BuildEvents_OnBuildProjConfigDone(ByVal Project As String, ByVal ProjectConfig As String, ByVal Platform As String, ByVal SolutionConfig As String, ByVal Success As Boolean) Handles BuildEvents.OnBuildProjConfigDone
     If Success = False Then
         DTE.ExecuteCommand("Build.Cancel")
         Beep()
         Threading.Thread.Sleep(250)
         Beep()
         Threading.Thread.Sleep(250)
         Beep()
         Threading.Thread.Sleep(250)
         Beep()
     End If
  End Sub

• Enjoy.

I’m sad I cannot provide the original author with the right credits for it, if any have that info please let me know and I’ll update this post.

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