Plugin Build Process - Very Inconsistent

I have read every piece of documentation I can find on the build process, specifically as it relates to plugin development.

I am running Visual Studio 2019 and Nopcommerce 4.2. I have taken the Facebook external auth plugin and am re-purposing it to be an OpenId provider.  That is its own set of challenges but the most problematic issue is the time it takes me just to test things.

I have set:

<CopyLocalLockFileAssemblies>true</CopyLocalLockFileAssemblies>

To true, yet anytime I rebuild the solution, the /Plugins/ folder within the Nop.Web app does not get updated with the latest changes. In order for it to work I have to:

1. Clean the entire solution
2. Rebuild *just* the plugin project in question
3. Build the rest of the solution
4. Proceed

Has anyone come up with any solutions to making this whole plugin process less painful?

I've not run across that problem, but what I do to speed up builds is to only enable build of the plugin I'm working on.  I will first rebuild entire solution, and then right-click the solution, Properties, Configuration Properties, Configuration:  uncheck Build for all except the one plugin.

Same, All I do is right mouse click build on the plugin project I am working on
It rebuilds and copies to /Plugins/ folder
Then I run the debuger (Click II Express)

What version VS you have as there have been lots of problems with different versions crashing and running slow over the last few months.
I am running 16.4.3 which seems reasonably ok at the moment

Also maybe check the project files are the latest

Thanks for the info guys. I am going to try the plugin-project-only build option and see how that goes.