Debug Target Is Missing?

Question

When I try to build my solution, I get the following error:

Visual Studio cannot start debugging because the debug target \'c:\\target\' is missing. P

Answer 1

There are many issues that can lead to this problem, after losing 2 days to this issue I think I have the root cause of this issue and also the problem of the Form Designer throwing an error when switching to the Design view (also seems to effect the DataSet Designer):

A language syntax error that Intellisense doesn't catch.

Once I went through my code with a fine tooth comb I found a couple of really boneheaded mistakes that I kept overlooking, once those were resolved the solution compiled just fine and the output was in the correct place.