how to change CopyRetryCount and CopyRetryDelayMilliseconds values in Visual Stdio

Question

VS 2017 often fails refreshing ASP.NET Core web applications with the following error message:

 Beginning retry 1 in 1000ms.
 ...
 Beginning retry 10 in 1000ms.

but when the second try, it runs ok. Question how to change/customize the configuration values of CopyRetryCount and CopyRetryDelayMilliseconds in a project? I found a global settings in the file,

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets

but what is the appropriate way to define a project level settings about those two?

C Johnson C Johnson · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-01T17:22:49

If you want to override those two properties, you can in your project *.csproj file. It will look like this:

<PropertyGroup>
  <CopyRetryCount>2</CopyRetryCount>
  <CopyRetryDelayMilliseconds>Put some number here</CopyRetryDelayMilliseconds>
</PropertyGroup>

You just hand edit your csproj file and put those values in there yourself.

how to change CopyRetryCount and CopyRetryDelayMilliseconds values in Visual Stdio

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