Where can I find the last successful build?

Question

We re-branched our release version of code to create a new Development branch. Since I had a project explicitly defined beneath the parent of the branch, it did NOT set the new "working folder". Therefore, my "GetLatestVersion" overwrote all of the code that I was working on.

So, how can I get the last successful build for my project? Where does it exist on my machine? If VS2010 can launch the last successful build, it's got to be saved someplace...

Answer 1

The last successfull build will be in your project's output path location, which looks like this by default:

path\to\your\project\[ConfigurationName]\bin

where ConfigurationName is Debug, Release, or a custom configuration. Check the path in your project properties in the Build tab.

Answer 2

If you open the properties of your application project and select the Build tab you can see the output path. If the path is relative (the default) like it is in the screen shot then you'll find the folder in the location your project files are stored.

Answer 3

This is where I found the "last successful build" of my ASP.NET web application, AFTER I tried to build and had build errors, which in turn wiped out the bin\\Debug folder. (I never understood why Microsoft had the feature "Do you want to run the last successful build?" option when you encounter a build failure...

C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v2.0.50727\\Temporary ASP.NET Files\\root\\feeb4296\\a2914fb6\\assembly\\dl3\\e116d84d\\f9632d40_e7aecc01