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Asked: 2026-05-15T22:53:04+00:00

I am using Visual Studio 2008 to build my projects. I often take existing

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I am using Visual Studio 2008 to build my projects.

I often take existing sample code and edit it and toy around with it, as I am just learning and I’d like to advance my skill.. it’s nice to have a template to work with.

That being said, I often get the build error “Post build event failed”. This is often accompanied by a “could not find xxx.sbr file” or something. I do not know what an sbr file is, not a “post-build event”. Re-building doesn’t seem to help, and clearing all the files out before tying another build does not help either.

That being said, the executable still always gets built.

I was wondering:

  1. What is a post build event and what are the implications/causes of its failure?

  2. What is an sbr file? I tried researching this a bit.. a “Source Browse File”? This site seemed pretty informative: http://www.ehow.com/facts_5657521_file-extension-sbr_.html

The problem is, I don’t understand why the compiler would complain about not finding this (isn’t it supposed to MAKE this?) and what EXACTLY it does (“enables Microsoft Visual Studio to access your source code” – can’t it do this anyway?)

Thanks!

R

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  1. Editorial Team

    post build event is just a command you can have visual studio run after it’s finished – maybe to kick off tests or build an installer.
    It’s in properties->build events in the menu – right click on the project.

    The SBR file is used by visual studio to browse sources and lookup which function is in which file. I have had problems where somehow it’s internal list of dependencies gets screwed up and it always rebuilds one of them.
    Try a clean and rebuild, then try quitting visual studio and deleting the .ncb file

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