This Problem is getting me head around it in these days. BUt , i have solve it:
Description of Problem:
recently installed VS2008 and opened a VSVS2008 project(C++). i tried building the project. But the project is getting skipped. I tried Clean as well as Rebuild, and it is getting skipped for those as well.
Though build check box is selected in Build->Configuration Manager, i was not able to build and the project got skipped when i tried to Build, Rebuild or Clean the solution.
As i was using Win2k8 R2 machine(64bit) i had to install VS 64bit compiler which wont be installed by default. So i had to install the feature again using Add/Remove features in VS2008 and the problem got solved.
I found this as I was able to build it for 32 bit but not for 64 bit.