Unable to copy file - access to the path is denied

Question

I am using Visual Studio 2005. After taking code from version control first, the c#.net application runs correctly. But, after doing some modifications, when I build I am

Answer 1

This has reared it's head again in Visual Studio 2017, in this case the cause is the Application Insights process ServiceHub.DataWarehouseHost.exe.

There is a workaround discussed in the thread warning MSB3026: Could not copy "obj\Debug\netcoreapp1.1\src.pdb" to "bin\Debug\netcoreapp1.1\src.pdb", which is to add a pre-build event to the project to kill the process every time the project is built. Quoting from that link:

• Right click properties on project
• Choose properties
• Build Events
• Pre-build event command line

taskkill /IM ServiceHub.DataWarehouseHost.exe /F 2>nul 1>nul
Exit 0

• Save and build