msbuild constantly hangs

Question

Whenever I build and run, MSBUILD hangs.  When I stop execution and re-run, it cannot deploy because MSBUILD is holding onto the process.

I have to constantly kill MSBUILD.

If I switch to 64bit, it does the same thing (only the 64bit version hangs)

Answer 1

Is this for a store app or all projects?

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Matt Small - Microsoft Escalation Engineer - Forum Moderator
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Answer 2

I presume store, though I should note I am also using Bing maps.   I see there is a new update.  I will try that.

Answer 3

Hangs almost every time still.

Answer 4

No one else is experiencing this?  Even if I clean/rebuild all it still hangs 3 times out of 4.   Does anyone know what other process I need to kill?

start Taskkill /F /IM MayApp.exe
start Taskkill /F /IM MSBUILD.exe

Answer 5

I swear I am going to lose my mind.

Make small code adjustment.

Build, Fail, Build, Fail.... 3 minutes later, build succeed

Answer 6

Sounds like you need to refresh your image.

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Matt Small - Microsoft Escalation Engineer - Forum Moderator
If my reply answers your question, please mark this post as answered.

NOTE: If I ask for code, please provide something that I can drop directly into a project and run (including XAML), or an actual application project. I'm trying to help a lot of people, so I don't have time to figure out weird snippets with undefined objects and unknown namespaces.

Answer 7

Ok, I did that.

Nothing :(  Did you mean VS or my machine?

Answer 8

This is doubling dev time :(