MSB3026: Could not copy “xxx.dll” to “other/xxx.dll

With Visual Studio 2015 I have often the case that following MsBuild exception occurs

warning MSB3026: Could not copy “SomePath/SomeDll.dll” to “SomeOtherPath/SomeDll.dll”. Beginning retry 1 in 1000ms. The process cannot access the file ‘SomePath/SomeDll.dll’ because it is being used by another process.

To get rid of this exception just kill the Visual Studio 2015 Remove Debugger

You can also execute following Command Line command:

taskkill /f /fi "Imagename eq msvsmon.exe"

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