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Asked: 2026-05-29T18:24:12+00:00

I’m building a project in Visual Studio 2010 and the build fails because it

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I’m building a project in Visual Studio 2010 and the build fails because it cannot copy the assemblyname.dll file from obj to bin folder. The exact error message is:

Error 7
Unable to copy file “obj\Debug\AssemblyName.dll” to “bin\AssemblyName.dll”. The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open.

I think this is because the previous file in bin-folder is not accessible. When I try to delete the file manually, I get an error “The action can’t be completed because the file is open in another program”. If I try to see what application locks the file with Unlocker, I don’t get any results (No Locking handle found).

If I restart Visual Studio, the error goes away but happens again after a build or two. Goes without saying that this is seriously slowing me down. Any advice how to start solving this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This behavior was due to a newly installed Visual Studio extension called Visual Studio Achievements (http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/bc7a433b-b594-48d4-bba2-a2f24774d02f)

    I noticed that the .pdb file was locked by FxCop (using Unlocker) and I think that the Achievements -extension uses it. After disabling the extension I’ve no longer got the error mentioned above.

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