Validating a Project

This topic describes the procedure to validate a project.

A project may contain several documents that are required by an application. Validating is a way of checking the entire design-time content in a project to determine its suitability to be used at run time. By validating a project, you generate the build output (run-time content) for the project and its contents. Whenever you make changes to the project, you need to validate it again so that its contents are available for use at run time.
At any point, if you want to get a fresh build of a project, you can clean the build of the workspace, and validate the project afresh. You can do this using the (Clean Build Folder) option on the Workspace Documents toolbar.

1. In the Workspace Documents, open <solution> > <project>.
2. Right-click the <project> and select Validate. The validation process starts in a separate window, which also displays the validation status.
   Note: If you validate the project in Classic View, the process status is displayed in a pane to the right of Workspace Documents.
   A successful validation is indicated by whereas errors are indicated by . To know the validation details, click Details. The details appear in the Details tab.
   After you make corrections, click Restart to validate the project again.