# Project Menu actions

Name | Function | Keyboard Shortcut
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Open Project | Shows a dialog that can be used to select a closed project and open it. |
Close Project | Closes the currently selected projects. |
Build All | Builds all projects in the workspace. This is a full build; all files are built. | Ctrl+B
Build Project | Builds the currently selected project. This is a full build; all files in the project are built. |
Clean | Invokes the make clean defined in the makefile |
Build Automatically | When checked, the CDT will perform a build whenever a file in a project is saved. You should turn this feature off for very large projects. |
Create Make Target | Creates a target in the Make Targets view. Standard Make only |
Build Make Target | Builds a specific make target defined in your makefile such as make clean or make install. Standard Make only. |
Properties | Displays the Properties dialog. From that dialog you can display the properties of resources in Info, External Tools Builders, C/C++ Build (managed only) File Types, Indexer options, C/C++ Make Project (standard only), C/C++ Project Paths (standard only), Include Paths and Symbols (standard only), and Project References. |

C/C++ compiler

Building a program