CODEWITHSUNDEEP
c#
Measter
Measter

Reputation: 68

'Could not copy file "obj\x86\debug\..." ' Error After Adding Four Lines of Code

I'm getting this error:

Could not copy the file "obj\x86\Debug\TitleGenerator.exe" because it was not found.

When I try to compile, but it doesn't make any sense. The only thing I changed was to add the following lines of code to help me debug an issue:

#if DEBUG
                if( title.Culture == null || title.Religion == null )
                {

                }
#endif

If I remove those lines, it compiles with no issue. If I change the if statement to if ( true ) {} it compiles fine.

Restarting Visual Studio doesn't help. I've also tried restarting my PC. As far as I can tell, the .Net framework, and Visual Studio are both up to date.

I'm using Visual Studio 2012, a target framework of 3.5, with the Default language level, CSS version 3.0

[Edit] It's now started working again. All I did was to remove output of title.TitleID from the output to the log.

Meaning I changed things like Log( " --Title in Ignore List: " + title.TitleID ); to Log( " --Title in Ignore List" );

The contents of title are decided during runtime, and it's the object of a foreach loop over a list.

Even more strangely, if I add this class to the project:

public class DebugBreak
{
    [Conditional("DEBUG")]
    public static void TitleIDBreak( Title title, string id )
    {
        if ( title.TitleID == id )
            System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break();
    }
}

But don't even do anything with it, then it works. I don't even have to call the method. Just changing the build action of the file from None to Compile makes it work.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3116

Answers (3)

James Pusateri
James Pusateri

Reputation: 166

This is commonly caused by Avast.

If you are running that antivirus, add an exclusion for your project folder.

I've searched for this several times in the past. Its a file access issue, so it may not be your code at all.

Upvotes: 1

McAden
McAden

Reputation: 13972

There's nothing wrong with the code you have written based purely on what you've posted.

One thing you can try is to use a Conditional attribute for your debugging. Something like:

[Conditional("DEBUG")]
static void TitleCheck(Title title)
{
    if( title.Culture == null || title.Religion == null )
    {
        System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break();
    }
}


private void MyProductionFunction(Title title)
{
    // Do some stuff

    TitleCheck(title); //<< This function call will be omitted completely if 'debug' conditional isn't met.

    // Do more stuff
}

Upvotes: 0

Hogan
Hogan

Reputation: 70523

What type is title? Is it even defined? Statements are checked for semantics even if DEBUG is not defined.

I'm guessing your code is not compiling.

C# does not use a "pre-processor" like early C compilers where the file was changed before the compiler even saw it.

Upvotes: 0

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