The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

posted by  mneon (8)  13 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Ever seen the error in the title...the one that happens when you rebuild your project in VS and it says:

Error 1 Could not write to output file Foo.exe' --'The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. '

This is a very frustrating error that many users have complained to us about in VS 2003. We have spent many hours figuring out these problems and fixing them. In Whidbey, we want to fix any bugs like these - we've fixed known issues from VS 2003, but if you happen to see o