visual studio - mspdbsrv.exe living forever?

Question

Is there a way to prevent mspdbsrv.exe from continuing to run after finishing the compilation? or even after I terminate visual studio? or perhaps even prevent it from even spawning in the first place?

what is this guy good for anyway?

using vs2005

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79898/mspdbsrv-exe-living-forever

Answer 1

MS recommends to add a postbuild-event to the Project options here.

[...]Sometimes it is possible that mspdbsrv.exe stays alive even after the build is over. In such scenarios, it is safe to add a post build event to kill the mspdbsrv.exe.

Background infos on postbuild-Events can be found on the linked page.