C# Compiler Options Listed by Category (C#)

C# Compiler Options Listed by Categ...

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2003/.NET Framework 1.1

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C# Compiler Options Listed by Category

The following compiler options are sorted by category. For an alphabetical list, see C# Compiler Options Listed Alphabetically.

Optimization

Option	Purpose
/filealign	Specify the size of sections in the output file.
/optimize	Enable/disable optimizations.

Output Files

Option	Purpose
/doc	Process documentation comments to an XML file.
/out	Specify output file.
/target	Specify the format of the output file using one of four options: /target:exe /target:library /target:module /target:winexe

.NET Framework Assemblies

Option	Purpose
/addmodule	Specify one or more modules to be part of this assembly.
/lib	Specify the location of assemblies referenced by means of /reference.
/nostdlib	Do not import standard library (mscorlib.dll).
/reference	Import metadata from a file that contains an assembly.

Debugging/Error Checking

Option	Purpose
/bugreport	Create a file that contains information that makes it easy to report a bug.
/checked	Specify whether integer arithmetic that overflows the bounds of the data type will cause an exception at run time.
/debug	Emit debugging information.
/fullpaths	Specify the absolute path to the file in compiler output.
/nowarn	Suppress the compiler's ability to generate specified warnings.
/warn	Set warning level.
/warnaserror	Promote warnings to errors.

Preprocessor

Option	Purpose
/define	Define preprocessor symbols.

Resources

Option	Purpose
/linkresource	Create a link to a managed resource.
/resource	Embed a .NET Framework resource into the output file.
/win32icon	Insert an .ico file into the output file.
/win32res	Insert a Win32 resource into the output file.

Miscellaneous

Option	Purpose
@	Specify a response file.
/?	List compiler options to stdout.
/baseaddress	Specify the preferred base address at which to load a DLL.
/codepage	Specify the code page to use for all source code files in the compilation.
/help	List compiler options to stdout.
/incremental	Enable incremental compilation of source code files.
/main	Specify the location of the Main method.
/noconfig	Do not compile with csc.rsp.
/nologo	Suppress compiler banner information.
/recurse	Search subdirectories for source files to compile.
/unsafe	Compile code that uses the unsafe keyword.
/utf8output	Display compiler output using UTF-8 encoding.