Visual Studio 2015 locks DLL during debugging

Question

I have 3 C# projects A, B, and C. Both A and B reference C. The references to C from A and B are set to \"Copy Local\" implying that after C is built to C.dll (in the output dir

Answer 1

I had the same problem and none of the other recommended solutions I came across while searching the interwebs worked for me. Finally after "repairing" Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise, I tried launching Visual Studio in safe mode: devenv.exe /SafeMode

In safe mode I was able to finally build my solution, and when I started again without the switch, I was prepared to shut off extensions one by one until I found which one was the culprit. Luckily that was unnecessary and subsequent builds went off without a hitch.