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intermittent process problem

Author
5 Jan 2006 3:24 PM
guy
when debugging a winforms vb.net 2005 app sometimes if i change the code it
buils ok but when running fails with a failure to copy the exe. on checking
with task manager there si a process still running - the exe in question. if
i kill this process everything is fine.
any easy fixes for this? its intermittent but annoying!

Author
5 Jan 2006 4:33 PM
Chris
guy wrote:
> when debugging a winforms vb.net 2005 app sometimes if i change the code it
> buils ok but when running fails with a failure to copy the exe. on checking
> with task manager there si a process still running - the exe in question. if
> i kill this process everything is fine.
> any easy fixes for this? its intermittent but annoying!

Sounds like you have a thread or something keeping your program alive.
Killing it is fine and will clear up your problem.  But you need to find
out why your program is not dieing when it should.

Chris