How to prevent Visual Studio from starting debug session in case of errors

Question

When I press F5 , Visual Studio builds my project and runs it (under debugger). It does so even if there are typescript of razor/cshtml errors in the errors window.

I would like Visual Studio to skip the run just like it does in case of C# compiler errors.

• Visual Studio 2019 Pro
• ASP.NET MVC project (not .NET Core)

Answer 1

Edit the .Web.csproj project file with an editor and add the following to the <PropertyGroup> tag:

<MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews>

The end result should look like this:

<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|AnyCPU'">
    ...
    <MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews>
</PropertyGroup>

You will need to reload the project\\visual studio. This will compile the views now. Remember compilation of the View files will increase your overall compilation time for the project.