Starting yesterday, for some reason a Build or Rebuild will not generate a
debuggable .exe in Debug if one already exists. Before doing a build, I have to
manually delete the file. If I don't do this, then no breakpoints etc work.

I THINK it might have coincided with installation of a ZoneAlarm update, but the
problem persists even if I turn ZoneAlarm off.

Ian,

What is the error that you get? Does it tell you that the exe is in
use?


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"Ian Semmel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Starting yesterday, for some reason a Build or Rebuild will not generate a
> debuggable .exe in Debug if one already exists. Before doing a build, I
> have to manually delete the file. If I don't do this, then no breakpoints
> etc work.
>
> I THINK it might have coincided with installation of a ZoneAlarm update,
> but the problem persists even if I turn ZoneAlarm off.

Does this happen if you creat a new simple project? Check your EventLog and
see is there anything in there.

chanmm

"Ian Semmel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Starting yesterday, for some reason a Build or Rebuild will not generate a
> debuggable .exe in Debug if one already exists. Before doing a build, I
> have to manually delete the file. If I don't do this, then no breakpoints
> etc work.
>
> I THINK it might have coincided with installation of a ZoneAlarm update,
> but the problem persists even if I turn ZoneAlarm off.

Just tried it on a new project and the same, but what I found is, the .exes in
the bin directory are the old version, but the .exes in the obj directory are
the new versions.

Is this some setting ?

I'm using VC# Express

Nothing in event viewer

chanmm wrote:
> Does this happen if you creat a new simple project? Check your EventLog and
> see is there anything in there.
>
> chanmm
>
> "Ian Semmel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>>Starting yesterday, for some reason a Build or Rebuild will not generate a
>>debuggable .exe in Debug if one already exists. Before doing a build, I
>>have to manually delete the file. If I don't do this, then no breakpoints
>>etc work.
>>
>>I THINK it might have coincided with installation of a ZoneAlarm update,
>>but the problem persists even if I turn ZoneAlarm off.
>
>
>

I'm fairly sure it was ZoneAlarm.

A week after the previous version (6.5.714.000) they released a new version
(6.5.722.000) with the comment that "an error prevented some programs from running"

After installing the update the problem went away.

Ian Semmel wrote:
> Starting yesterday, for some reason a Build or Rebuild will not generate
> a debuggable .exe in Debug if one already exists. Before doing a build,
> I have to manually delete the file. If I don't do this, then no
> breakpoints etc work.
>
> I THINK it might have coincided with installation of a ZoneAlarm update,
> but the problem persists even if I turn ZoneAlarm off.