obj/<name>.pdb problems

[Arch Stanton]

Hi gang! I've done some searching but can't seem to find what I'm looking for. I have a solution with roughly 30 projects (all C#) in it. Fairly often, perhaps every 5th or 10th debug build, I get errors in 1 to 3 of the projects that say that the /debug/obj/.pdb file is in use and the build couldn't complete. I cannot delete the file without shutting down VS, but once I do and restart, the projects build fine. In using VS.NET 2003 on W2K. Is there something causing this in what I'm doing? Is it an IDE bug? How can I fix it or efficiently circumvent it? I realize that this may not neatly fit into the C# newsgroup topic, but it seemed the best match. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! E

[LongRange Shooter]

Whenever I have had problems like this it is either because a) I have a debugger outside of VS that is running. b) I had run FXCop and that is still open. Something, somewhere, has that PDB file open which prevents VS from doing a File.Open with replace. _____________________________________________ Of all the senses I could possibly lose,
It is most often the one called 'common' that gets lost.

[Arch Stanton]

More info. This happens with code behind a Windows Form. When this problem arises, close all of the Windows Forms documents in the IDE and the file is released by whatever is holding it. Seems like a bug... Thanks for the reply, but I don't have FXCop and the above seems to negate 'a'. I'm puzzled.:confused: E