Can I stop Visual Studio compilation when it already started?

Question

Sometime I mistakenly press build (or Debug/F5) in Visual Studio, which result in a build process. I don't know how to stop this, stop debugging button is disabled, and normally I have to wait until the compilation is finished before I can code again (this might take a while if my solution has quite a number of csproj).

Any idea how to stop the compilation process?

Answer 1

Press the Control Button and then Break (pause break)

Answer 2

Press Ctrl+Pause|Break to abort the build.

Answer 3

That's easy - Press Ctrl+Break (Works only from VS2005 upto 2010)
I suggest to download for your reference this document
Visual Studio 2010 Default Key Bindings

Answer 4

You can press the key combination Ctrl + Break.