Could not copy temporary files to the output directory...

[lasmit]

I am having some troubles with a project I am working on not building
correctly.

I converted an old ASP project to .Net and then have been adding pages
to the project in C#. This all works ok, however when I try and
compile the project I get two error messages:

1) Could not copy temporary files to the output directory.
2) The file 'bin\IADB_ASP_NET.dll' cannot be copied to the run
directory. The process cannot access the file because it is being used
by another process.

I am the only person working on this project and I have only one
instance of Visual Studio open. The only way to resolve the issue is
to restart Visual Studio.

This is deeply frustraing and I would really appreciate any advice that
anyone has to offer!

Lewis

Spec: Win2k Sp4
MSDE Standard Edition, v7.1.3088 (no updates available when clicking
help->check for updates)
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Hotfix (KB830348)

 

[lasmit]

While I remember, I have also tried:

* Terminating the aspnet_wp process
* Restarting IIS

Neither of which helped.

Many thanks in advance..

Lewis

 

[Guest]

I too have experienced this same bug all too often where restarting Visual
Studio is your only option. See if http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311491/ or
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313512 can offer any
resolution for you.

One quick check though... do you have the Object Browser open? If so, try
closing that and building again.

Brendan

 

[lasmit]

Brendan

Thanks for your reply, the second solution in the first article you
mention seems to stop this from occuring 95% of the time although the
problem still pops up occasionally.

Good enough for me though.

Many thanks!

Lewis