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brunoff
brunoff

Reputation: 4219

Visual Studio 2019 not updating/removing a service reference

Visual Studio 2019 is not updating a mex service reference. If I try to remove the service reference, the problem gets worse, and the service reference gets marked with a red cross and it is not possible to go back to the previous state.

The error message includes the error code 0x8007007c.

Restarting the IDE does not solve anything.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 287

Answers (1)

brunoff
brunoff

Reputation: 4219

A system process misteriously blocked a file inside the service references folder, and Visual Studio doesn't make it clear with its messages.

Restarting the IDE wasn't a solution because the process was independent from the IDE. Rebooting the system (or finding a way to kill the process with the file handle) is the solution. Probably a Visual Studio bug.

Since it took me two hours and there wasn't any post citing this error code 0x8007007c and the correct solution, I came here to post the problem/solution I would like to have read before.

Upvotes: 1

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