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Asked: 2026-05-11T14:09:19+00:00

Is there a way that I can make VS 2008 always kill the w3wp

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Is there a way that I can make VS 2008 always kill the w3wp process before building a project? I feel like it used to do this on my machine, but now I always have to kill it manually before kicking off a build or else it will fail to deploy the new binaries to my localhost.

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If I don’t manually kill the process before kicking off a build in VS 2008, I get this error message:

Error 1: Unable to copy file ‘UPDATED_DLL_I_JUST_BUILT’ to ‘DLL_CURRENTLY_ON_SERVER’. The process cannot access the file ‘DLL_CURRENTLY_ON_SERVER’ because it is being used by another process.

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  1. As others have said, add a prebuild event. Here is a command:

    taskkill /F /IM w3wp.exe

    (As pointed out in the comments, this will not work on Windows XP Home)

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