Visual C++ 6.0 project dependencies

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I have an involved VC++ 6.0 workspace that has over 20 projects in it. I have created a build.dsp that has dependencies on the other projects. It will also build them in a specified order which is necessary. When I call the build.dsp from Visual Build, it does not build any of the dependencies, but does complete successfully. If I open the project up in VC++ and do a build on the build.dsp project it starts building all the dependencies. Is this a bug, limitation, or am I doing something wrong.

Thanks

Tom