ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio 2013: Compilation Error

Question

From time to time I get "Compilation Error" CS0042 yellow page: http://i.stack.imgur.com/Hwfip.png

It happens when I change something (i.e. .cshtml file code) when my application is running. In VS 2012 it caused no problems. Some of my co-workers using VS 2013 have the same issue. Why App_GlobalResources.PDB file causes the problem?

Anyone has the same problem?

Answer 1

In your Web.config file remove attribute optimizeCompilations="true" (from section <compilation />)

Answer 2

According to this blog post, the problem is very much similar with yours. Please try the following things mentioned in the post:

1. Exit VS.NET, restart VS.NET and reopen project
2. Change project from Debug Build to Release Build and visa-versa.
3. Remove all Enums from classes and just use in the namespace
4. Ensure all DLL projects have ‘CopyLocal’ set to true AND references to these DLL’s be a Project Reference and not simple a DLL reference.

If it's not working, it should be a bug presented in the Visual Studio 2013 then.

Hope it helps.