Visual Studio displayed lots of errors, but there is only one actual error

Question

I have a custom control library in my solution, where my main WPF project references it. If there is an error in the custom control library, then the error list goes mental and displayed hundreds of errors. Here is an example of one such incident.

Now this is just an error that I forced in order to demonstrate the problem.

In this case, the problem isn't so severe, as there are only 21 errors. However, there have been occasions where I have had to filter though hundreds of errors to find the actual error that's causing everything else to fail.

I believe I understand what the problem actually is. I think the problem is due to the custom control library not being built, therefore my main project can't find the dll for it, and therefore the custom controls cannot be found, which causes the errors.

Now, in truth, the error list isn't lying, I mean, these are real errors. However, that being said, is there a way to prevent this from occurring?

Answer 1

If I understand what you are asking, I think that this extension will help you as it stops the build as soon as an error occurs.

StopOnFirstBuildError