unable to write output file ... pdb visual studio 2010

Question

From other answers to this same question, it seems that this error is secondary to the real problem which is a missing source file. I am not using any source control. I have looked through my entire project and don't see any files with a warning icon, indicating it's missing. If there IS a file missing, what is it missing from?

How can I find the "missing" file? Isn't there any way of resetting this? My whole project is stuck on this.

Answer 1

I had this too. Close VS and reopen. Don't compile. The errors list should tell you which file is missing.

Answer 2

I too had this problem. My project was building in release mode but was not working in debug mode. I checked for all necesary files are included in my solution and I found that there is one file missing Settings.Designer.vb in My Project folder. I included these file in project and it build file in debug mode also.