An error I sometimes encounter with Visual Studios 2022 is that if I make several changes and run the project several times in a short period of time the build will fail with the errors:
Could not copy “obj\Debug\net6.0\{ProjectName.dll}” to “bin\Debug\net6.0\{ProjectName.dll}”. Exceeded retry count of 10. Failed. The file is locked by: “Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 (20356)”
Unable to copy file “obj\Debug\net6.0\{ProjectName.dll}”to “bin\Debug\net6.0{{ProjectName.dll}”. The process cannot access the file ‘bin\Debug\net6.0\{ProjectName.dll’ because it is being used by another process.
This error will continue for some time if the user tries to build or run the solution again and will show the same error message each time. After getting stuck on this a couple of times when trying to run the project I tried searching for a solution however nothing online was overly helpful. The solution I have been using that does fix the issue is to use the “Clean Solution” option under the “Build” menu in the top bar in Visual Studios. After running the clean solution tool the project will build without error and can be run.
Clean and Build Solution menu options in the top tool bar:
