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When the Visual Basic compiler (Vbc.exe) crashes, Visual Studio fails to detect this and becomes stuck in an inoperable state. The "Build" menu appears as it would if the solution were building, but the Cancel Build (Ctrl+Break) menu item has no effect. Trying to close the application or the solution gives the error:
The build must be stopped before the solution can be closed.
I can't find any way to remedy this short of terminating the devenv.exe process and restarting Visual Studio completely. Is there anything quicker and less severe?
(Microsoft claims to have fixed this bug in 2005, but I'm experiencing it with VS2008.)
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You can hit Ctrl + Break on the keyboard to cancel/stop a build that is currently in progress.
Ctrl+Break or Go to Visual Studio 2013 Build Menu -> cancel build , that easy. reference Hope helps someone.
Find the drop-down box at the top of Visual Studio's window that says Debug. Select Release. Hit F6 to build it. Switch back to Debug and then close Visual Studio.
The project files appear on the right side of the Visual Studio IDE, in a window called the Solution Explorer. In the Solution Explorer window, select the Program.
I'd look for msbuild process(es) to kill before devenv. And make sure vbc really has gone too.
And as the comments say, try using msbuild yourself.
Seeing as I've got a Nice Answer badge from this, I feel I should emphasise my comment below: In all the cases where this has happened to me there have been no msbuild or vbc processes to kill. If anyone gave or gives me a +1 because they did find a stuck msbuild or vbc process, please comment that this was the case too.
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