When I choose Edit for Outputs, a dialog box comes up.  I enter a value of "$(OutDir)\regsvr32.trg" in the upper textbox then click OK.  Now for some reason VS 2010 changes the display text to show "$(OutDir)\regsvr32.trg;%(Outputs)".  I'm not sure why or if that is the cause of the problem.

However, I will get "Build Successful" if I change my Output value to "<inherit from parent or project defaults>" instead of choosing Edit and putting a value in.  No more Error MSB3073 exited with code 3.

I guess I can say this issue is resolved but I'd like to know why/what causes this issue to begin with.

Error MSB3073 exited with code 3

http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/Error-MSB3073-exited-with-code-3

However, I had already compared all those settings you suggested and they were all set correctly, and my newly converted project have the settings correct as well.  No mixing of Debug/Release that I can tell. 

However, I do believe but I'm not entirely sure since I reconverted my project that I had included "libcpmt.lib" listed in Linker > Input > Additional Dependencies.  According to another developer suggestion that may have been the issue, so it wasn't included this time around.

• Clean Solution
• Rebuild Solution or
• Build Solution (The 1st time)

Here is the error I get when I follow those steps above:

error MSB3073: The command "regsvr32 /s /c "C:\SourceControl\MyProject\.\Debug\MyProject.dll" echo regsvr32 exec. time > ".\Debug\regsvr32.trg" echo Execute mtxrereg.exe before using MTS components in MTS

:VCEnd" exited with code 3. C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets 183 6

However,  immediately after getting that error where I do just a "Build Solution" ONLY I get Build succeeded

Under Project > Properties > Configuration Properties > Custom Build Step I have Command Line:

regsvr32 /s /c "$(TargetPath)" echo regsvr32 exec. time > "$(OutDir)regsvr32.trg" echo Execute mtxrereg.exe before using MTS components in MTS

Does anyone know why this happens and how I can resolve it?

NOTE:  I do have VS 2010 set to "Run As Administrator"

Thanks

Thanks for the links.  I already saw the second one but the first one I did not.

Since I am not that familiar with VC++ what in particular should I be looking at under Project > Properties > Configuration Properties?

For all projects, I have 8, from what I can tell under Configuration Properties > General section these are the differences I see for the various Configurations:

• Debug =                               Use of ATL: Not Using ATL
• Release MinDependency =  Use of ATL: Static Link to ATL
• Release MinSize =               Use of ATL: Dynamic Link to ATL

I have one project showing Use of MFC: Use MFC in a Shared DLL for all Configurations.  All the other show Use Standard Windows Libraries.

With that said, I am currently working on migrating a VB6 project to C# using VS 2010 as well as upgrading VC++ 6.0 project to VS 2010.  My goal is to migrate VC++ 6.0 to VC++ 2010, then once I have that all compiling and working I will convert it over to C#.  However I am running into issue with this plan which is this:

error LNK2038: mismatch detected for '_ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL': value '0' doesn't match value '2' in CompressionObj.obj with file libcpmt.lib(newaop.obj)

Since my knowledge of VC++ is limited can someone please tell me what I should be looking for and how to go about fixing this?  All I know about _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL is this

1. _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL = 0 // disabled (for release builds)
2. _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL = 1 // enabled (if _SECURE_SCL is defined)
3. _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL = 2 // enabled (for debug builds)

I've done a Entire Solution search for _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL and _SECURE_SCL but my search turned up nothing in my code.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.  NOTE:  Because of corporate security protocols I cannot provide sample code.