Incremental Builds

Incremental builds allow you to save time while deploying applications for testing or production purposes. For incremental builds, only object classes that are affected by one or more changes are recompiled during the build process.

• Build and Deploy Directories
  When you deploy a .NET application project, PowerBuilder creates a build directory under the directory for the current target.
• Rebuild Scope
  An option on the General tab page of .NET Windows Forms and Web Forms Project painters allows you to choose whether to do a full rebuild or an incremental build when deploying a .NET project. The default option is incremental.
• .NET Modules
  For a debug build, the PowerBuilder .NET compiler creates a .NET module for each PowerBuilder class or class group. A class group consists of a container object that instantiates a primary class, and the controls in that container object, that are instances of subsidiary classes.
• PBD Generation
  In addition to .NET modules or assemblies, PowerBuilder can generate PBD files for application PBLs containing DataWindow, Query, or Pipeline objects.
• Triggering Build and Deploy Operations
  PowerBuilder lets you trigger build and deploy operations when you run or debug a .NET Web Forms or Windows Forms project.
• System Option
  Select an option to determine whether a message box appears if you run or debug a project when it is out of date.
• Incremental Build Processing
  When you save recently edited code, the PowerBuilder IDE invokes the PowerScript compiler to get information for updating the System Tree and the property sheet.