Visual Studio 2008 error notification...when not to make sense

To be fair there are elements of Visual Studio 2005 that do appear like successful operation was considered a bug during development. Even with Service Pack 1 it's still only marginally beta quality. 2008 is on the whole much nicer.

My particular favourite build issues are when Visual Studio has locks on files that prevent the build from succeeding. I probably need to kill a VS instance once or twice a week on average to resolve this. I've tried in the past to add MSBuild copy commands to project files to automatically copy various assemblies into a common output directory but invariably this runs into file locking issues that make it simply not worth the effort. Which is annoying.