I have a WebApplication which contains reference to WCF services.
While building using Visual Studio 2010, Build fails without any error or warning. However building
I had this same problem and I traced this issue down to the Error List options "Build + Intellisense".
If this option is selected then no errors are shown in the list. Switch to "Build Only" and the errors appear as expected.
Its look like a bug in Visual Studio. Restarting the visual studio solved this issue.