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The Advanced property page is available in Visual Studio 2019 and later. To see the documentation for that version, set the Visual Studio Version selector control for this article to Visual Studio 2019. It's found at the top of the table of contents on this page.

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The Advanced property page is available in Visual Studio 2019 and later.

• Target File Extension

  Specifies the file extension to use for the build output. Defaults to .exe for applications, .lib for static libraries and .dll for DLLs.

• Extensions to Delete on Clean

  The Clean option (Build menu) deletes files from the intermediate directory where a project's configuration is built. Files with extensions specified in this property get deleted when Clean is run or when you rebuild. The build system deletes any files that have these extensions in the intermediate directory. It also deletes any known output of the build, no matter where it's located. (That includes the intermediate outputs such as .obj files.) You can specify wildcard characters in this property.

  To programmatically access this property, see xref:Microsoft.VisualStudio.VCProjectEngine.VCConfiguration.DeleteExtensionsOnClean%2A.

• Build Log File

  Allows you to specify a non-default location for the log file that's created whenever you build a project. The default location is specified by the macros $(IntDir)$(MSBuildProjectName).log.

  You can use project macros to change the directory location. See Common macros for build commands and properties.

• Preferred Build Tool Architecture

  Specifies whether to use the x86 or x64 build tools.

• Use Debug Libraries

  Specifies whether to create a Debug or Release build.

• Enable Unity (JUMBO) build

  Enables a faster build process that combines many C++ source files into one or more files before compilation. These combined files are known as unity files. They're unrelated to the Unity game engine.

• Copy Content to OutDir

  Copy the items marked as content in the project to the project's output directory ($(OutDir)). This setting can simplify deployment. This property is available starting in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7.

• Copy Project References to OutDir

  Copy the executable (DLL and EXE file) project reference items to the project's output directory ($(OutDir)). In C++/CLI (/clr) projects, this property is ignored. Instead, the Copy Local property on each project reference controls whether it's copied to the output directory. This setting can simplify local deployment. It's available starting in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7.

• Copy Project References' Symbols to OutDir

  Copy the PDB files for project reference items along with the project reference executable items to the project's output directory ($(OutDir)). This property is always enabled for C++/CLI projects. This setting can simplify debug deployment. It's available starting in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7.

• Copy C++ Runtime to OutDir

  Copy the runtime DLLs to the project's output directory ($(OutDir)). This setting can simplify local deployment. It's available starting in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7.

• Use of MFC

  Specifies whether the MFC project statically or dynamically links to the MFC DLL. In non-MFC projects, select Use Standard Windows Libraries to link the Win32 libraries included by MFC.

  To programmatically access this property, see xref:Microsoft.VisualStudio.VCProject.VCProjectConfigurationProperties.useOfMfc%2A.

• Character Set

  Defines whether _UNICODE or _MBCS should be set. Also affects the linker entry point where appropriate.

  To programmatically access this property, see xref:Microsoft.VisualStudio.VCProject.VCProjectConfigurationProperties.CharacterSet%2A.

• Whole Program Optimization

  Specifies the /GL compiler option and /LTCG linker option. By default, whole program optimization is disabled for Debug configurations, and enabled for Release configurations.

• MSVC Toolset Version

  Specifies the full version of the MSVC toolset that's used to build the project. You may have various update and preview versions of a toolset installed. You can specify which one to use here.

• LLVM Toolset Version

  Specifies the full version of the LLVM toolset that's used to build the project. This property is available when LLVM (clang-cl) is selected as the platform toolset, starting in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9. For more information, see Set a custom LLVM toolset version.

• Common Language Runtime support

  Causes the /clr compiler option to be used.

  To programmatically access this property, see xref:Microsoft.VisualStudio.VCProject.VCProjectConfigurationProperties.ManagedExtensions%2A.

• .NET Target Framework Version

  In managed projects, specifies the .NET framework version to target.

• Enable Managed Incremental Build

  For managed projects, this option enables detection of external visibility when you generate assemblies. If a change to a managed project isn't visible to other projects, dependent projects aren't rebuilt. Managed incremental builds can dramatically improve build times in solutions that include managed projects.

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