Have you tried 1) closing the IDE, 2) deleting the bin and obj directories under your project directories, then 3) building (not rebuilding) your solution, project by project in the Project Build Order (right-click on the solution to get this dialog box). We have about 20 projects in our solution and have to do this occasionally to get the solution to build. HTH.
Allen -----Original Message----- From: James Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DOTNET] NIGHTMARE BUG!! Visual Studio fails to build debug, but release works fine.. I am developing a .net project. The solution has 14 projects, of varying size. The compiled IL is a total of 640k so far. So it's getting big, but you wouldn't expect there to be any problems. Today VS.NET has started refusing to build my project in debug mode. A simple 'using Adastra.CMS.Business' statement gives the standard reference problem message: "Main.cs(8): The type or namespace name 'CMS' does not exist in the class or namespace 'Adastra' (are you missing an assembly reference?)" However, I have got the correct project in my references. Deleting the reference and re-adding it has no effect. Inspecting the compiled dll with ildasm indicates that yes, the namespace is in there. Would you believe building a release mode version works perfectly??? I have tried full rebuilds, partial rebuilds, del *.dll /s, del *.pdb /s and a rebuild. I've tried restarting devenv. I've tried rebooting. I've deleted the solution and recreated it. I've deleted the project that contains the adastra.cms.business namespace. I've done a full repair/reinstall of vs.net; I've copied the project to another machine and tried building it on there (same again). I've tried pulling my hair out. I've tried shouting. But nothing seems to work. I don't understand -- seeing as a release build works fine! This is frustrating as hell. I've been trying to solve this for 7 hours straight now, and you can guess how I feel about visual studio.net right about now. Anyone got any ideas? Please??? ;-) You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
