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Why is Visual Studio constantly trying to create a dummy / empty file?

I first ran Process Monitor (by Sys Internals) on this Win7 RTM machine to figure out the paths that VS2008 uses when compiling (so I can exclude them from my AV).

Check this....

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WTF? Every 6 seconds (or so), it tries to CreateFile on some invalid path. If you notice (in the figure), I disabled all the details of the EXCEPT file system activity.

Does anyone know what is going on?

EDIT: I took another screen with clearer information.
EDIT 2: Can anyone else reproduce this? If yes, add a comment if you can. EDIT 3: Maybe because of the plugin I have? eg. Resharper?

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It does not try to create a file, if you look at the details column, it performs a “data reading / directory listing”. It probably runs some kind of FindFirstFile , FindNextFile to resolve the file header.

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The CreateFile function is intended not only for creating files, but also for opening existing files and directories for reading.

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