Tracking down intermittent 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.' error on build

Question

I could use some help trying to track down an intermittent error that I\'ve been having with our ASP.Net project for quite some time.

Intermittently when building th

Answer 1

The first thing I'd try would be to increase the compiler verbosity. This can be set in the Visual Studio options - e.g. "Tools->Options->Projects and Solutions-Build and Run->MSBuild project build output verbosity" for VS2005. If you set it to diagnostic then it should tell you what it's doing at the time the exception is raised at the very least.