Monday, October 5, 2015

Cleaning Debug and release folders in visual studio solutions / projects

Either you need to clean these folders to save space,  make sure that your projects are clean rebuilt, or you have the nasty error :

fatal error C1083: cannot open compiler generated file: 'xxxxxx.xxx': permission denied

 

Searching the internet will give you some results from msdn or stackoverflow , that will mostly work like :

 

MSDN solution .

 

StackOverflow 

 

but the one that worked for me is a small C++ project :

Clean Visual Studio Workspaces

 

from there download the source files and build the project and use it directly to clean all these nasty folders