Visual Studio locks output file on build

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Had the same issue, but found a solution (thanks to Keyvan Nayyeri):

But how to solve this? There are various ways based on your project type but one simple solution that I recommend to Visual Studio add-in developers is to add a simple code to their project’s build events.

You can add following lines of code to the pre-build event command line of your project.

if exist "$(TargetPath).locked" del "$(TargetPath).locked"
if exist "$(TargetPath)" if not exist "$(TargetPath).locked" move "$(TargetPath)" "$(TargetPath).locked"

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