Visual Studio 2010 Randomly Stops Building

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I am having a problem with Visual Studio 2010 as of late that I can't figure out. Lately after having VS2010 open for an extended period of time, building begins to fail without error. This includes build, rebuild, and clean.

The output from VS2010 is only two lines:

When trying build:

    1>------ Build started: Project: example, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
    ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

When trying rebuild:

    1>------ Rebuild All started: Project: example, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
    ========== Rebuild All: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========

When trying clean:

    1>------ Clean started: Project: example, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
    ========== Clean: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========

The only way I can resume using VS to build the project(s) is to restart my system. However, using msbuild from the commandline builds the project(s) without issue. So this appears to be related to VS itself but I can't figure out whats causing it with no actual error being displayed.

I have tried restarting VS itself, deleting .suo, .ncb, precompiled headers, etc. to see if it is a file lock issue which did not help or fix the problem. There are no stray processes running from a previous build when this starts happening either.

Edit --8<------------------------------------------

Just for some added information:

  • I have reinstalled VS2010 twice to try to correct this.
  • I have reinstalled VS2010 SP1 twice along with that.
  • This only happens with VS after an extended period of time.
  • It seems to occur when modifying a header (C++) file for a long time.
  • After it happens I can still build from the command line fine just not from VS until I restart the system.
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Tools + Options, Projects and Solutions, Build and Run. Bump up the "MSBuild project build output verbosity" setting. – Hans Passant
@HansPassant: Thanks for your reply, I have set the verbosity of Visual Studio to max and it still only reports the above statements. :( (I also added some more info to the main post.) – atom0s
Right, you have to dig through the diagnostics and figure out what failed. Post it somewhere if you can't figure it out. – Hans Passant
@HansPassant : I've looked at the log file since the output window does not change, however the log file is empty when this starts happening. If I delete all debug/release folders and rebuild as debug mode, the only file created is debug/project_name.log which is empty and the build fails. – atom0s
May sound like a stupid question, but do you have a virus scanner running? Can you turn it off and try again? But we're getting into longshot territory now, so as Hans Passant says, it might be more of a Super User issue. – Bart

3 Answers

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If it started suddenly, keeps happening, and happens on different projects, try testing your RAM. You can download an ISO for memtest86, burn, and boot to it.

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I know this is old but try rebuilding and cleaning solution if this happens to you again. It helped me.

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A bit late to respond to this but I never did figure out what caused this issue to happen. I landed up reformatting shortly after I posted this question. Thanks all who tried to help though.