Hi, over the last week or so, most of my builds will result in lots of "A task was canceled" messages in the output window, and nothing else happens. At the same time, I can have over 30 instances of MSBuild.exe and ConHost.exe processes running.
Despite specifying the /nr:false command line option, the MSBuild and ConHost processes do not close at the end of a, rare, build completion. I have also noticed that it can take 10 minutes or more to cancel a build which is reporting "A task was canceled". Answers to other reports of this issue have not helped. Things like checking the timezone and so on. My timezone is fine. My antivirus is set to exclude on-access checking of ConHost.exe, MSBuild.exe, anything on my source code drive, and anything in the installation folder for VS2013, so I don't think it's an antivirus issue. This is more like a systematic bug in the way parallel builds are handled. If anyone knows of a fix, please let me know, because this is wasting a significant amount of my working day. Thanks. PS I wrote this in the VS2013 browser window, and after deleting a newline pressing the enter key does nothing. Hence why most of this post is one long paragraph. Sorry.