How do I cancel a build that is in progress in Visual Studio

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Almost unconsciously I hit the keyboard build macro that builds my entire solution  This can happen just as I notice a code change  The build dominates my computer  and I basically have to wait till it finishes  10 seconds   How can I cancel a build

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Ctrl   Break works  but only if the Build window is active  Also  interrupting the build will sometimes leave a corrupted  obj file that will have to be manually deleted in order for the build to proceed

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The  pause  command was a function button underneath my right shift key  so the below combination of keys did the trick for me   Ctrl   Fn   Shift

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Go to the Window menu and choose  quot Web Publish Activity quot  There will be a cancel button  Cancel button on  quot Web Publish Activity quot  tab

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I m using Visual Studio 2015  To stop build you can follow    Ctrl   Pause  Ctrl   Break

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For users of Lenovo Thinkpad T470s like me  you can simulate the break key by hitting Ctrl Fn P  which cancels the build

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The build context menu has a Cancel build in Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2013

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If all else fails go to task manager and kill the msbuild task under Visual Studio 2017

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Ctrl   End works for me on Visual C   2010 Express

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Go to Visual Studio Build Menu -  cancel build   easy

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Visual Studio 2015 Professional Update 3  If you are using Mac you can do following  Click Build --  Cancel from the Visual Studio Menu  or  Select Azure App Service Activity window --  Cancel  it will cancel the publish activity

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You can hit Ctrl Break on the keyboard to cancel stop a build that is currently in progress

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This is crude  but it works well  The Visual Studio on one of my projects  I turn MVC view building on to catch markup errors   well  the project becomes unresponsive while building  I can t cancel the build using the keyboard shortcuts   So I made this batch file that sits on my quick launch task bar    echo off echo KILL BILLd for  L   i in  1 1 10  do      Taskkill  IM aspnet compiler exe  F    timeout 1     I also made the batch file launch minimized  The build stops and Visual Studio just throws in the error window that there was a problem building

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I was hit by an unresponsive build and absolutely nothing would allow me to either kill or cancel the build  Even trying to end the task would trigger a user input window  saying that it could not be ended while the build is still going on  quite ironic because that was precisely the intention  to leave that broken state    The build was taken care of by MSBuild  so the one way I found is to end its task  When forcing MSBuild exe to end  VS will wake up and finally see the build as cancelled  allowing you to work again   Hope this helps someone in the same situation

[visual-studio-2010] How do I cancel a build that is in progress in Visual Studio?

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