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+5  Q: 

Cancel a running build process in VS

Is it possible to cancel/abort a running build process in Visual Studio 2008?
How?

+12  A: 

CTRL + Break should do the trick?

Iz  2009-09-09 19:28:40
I was obviously too tired, because I was hitting Esc and/or Ctrl-C like mad. But didn't think of Ctrl-Break, because it's a tricky key combination to press. But thanks. It works.
Robert Koritnik  2009-09-09 19:31:17
+1 for kbd tags.
Callum Rogers  2009-09-09 20:00:58
Maybe I'm missing something, but with multi-processor C++ builds, canceling with ctrl-break or "alt-b a" doesn't actually seem to kill the build. I just did a 4 processor compilation and tried to kill it and two of the thread stopped, 2 kept going.
John Naegle  2009-10-01 02:26:57
+4  A: 

Try hitting Ctrl+Pause(=break) on your keyboard.

Sorskoot  2009-09-09 19:29:48
+3  A: 

While building, the Build menu has a Cancel menu item... which also shows the key combination in your particular configuration (default is, as answered by lz, CTRL+BREAK).

Lucero  2009-09-09 19:39:29

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