Visual Studio issue

[GRoston]

I use Visual Studio 2015 and am creating a simple program; however, some really weird crap is happening.

If open VS, build the program, the run it. No problem. However, if I then edit the program and click build, that fails because it cannot access the .exe file because of ownership issues. If I then open file explorer and try to reset the owner of the folder (and subcontainers and objects) that is denied because I an not the Administrator. If I try to make sure all the files are not readonly, that is again denied because of ownership.

However, after a minute or two, this issue goes away. This issue is clearly making development a nightmare, but I haven’t a clue as to how to resolve the issue. Any suggestions?

 

[Alejandro85]

Start by having a look at the command line output from the compiler and see what error messages are there. Look at the output window and post here any errors you got there and any other message you see.

 

[torchwood]

so whats the .exe

 

[GRoston]

In response to Alejandro85:
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error Could not copy "obj\Debug\dailyKillerConvert.exe" to "bin\Debug\dailyKillerConvert.exe". Exceeded retry count of 10. Failed. dailyKillerConvert
Warning Could not copy "obj\Debug\dailyKillerConvert.exe" to "bin\Debug\dailyKillerConvert.exe". Beginning retry 1 in 1000ms. The process cannot access the file 'bin\Debug\dailyKillerConvert.exe' because it is being used by another process. dailyKillerConvert

The error message repeated 10 times

 

[torchwood]

have a look at this thread, scroll down to 10

Just a moment...

 

[GRoston]

torchwood: Thank you, but... I am not making a web project.

 

[Alejandro85]

Warning Could not copy "obj\Debug\dailyKillerConvert.exe" to "bin\Debug\dailyKillerConvert.exe". Beginning retry 1 in 1000ms. The process cannot access the file 'bin\Debug\dailyKillerConvert.exe' because it is being used by another process. dailyKillerConvert

This seems like a resource leak. In the initial post you mention that you run the project, the modify, recompile and this breaks.
My suspicion is that the first run of the code didn't actually finished running when you expect, thus leaking that running process, which in turn keeps the .exe locked, which in turn prevents the compiler from overwriting with the new one. You can check if that's the case with task manager, you will find a process named as your program there. Killing it would allow to compile for the next time.

If you confirm that being the case, it may indicate a bug in your program, not finishing the process when it should.

 

[GRoston]

Hate to disagree, but... VS clearly showed the message "Build succeeded" before I did anything else, so this means (I think) that the compiler finished running. The program itself has no bugs - it is a rather simple program. I also know that it finished, because the last line is Me.Close.

Also, when I look in Task Manager, there is no process with my program's name running.

Not sure if this is related at all, but when I run VS and then exit is, a process called Microsoft.VsHub.Server.HttpHost.exe is still running. When I run Excel and try running a VBA macro, Excel shuts down immediately. However, when I kill this process, Excel works as expected.