Circular file references are not allowed Dnn 7+ in TFS 2013 - asp.net

I am using DNN 7.3 for a website project which is a combination of VB and C# codes. I use visual studio 2013 to build the project.
If the MSBuid Option in property page is configured to Allow this Precompiled site to be updatable and the project is published.
There will be a successful built. But when it is checked in to the TFS, the following exception will be thrown:
/compiled/DesktopModules/Admin/Security/manageusers.ascx (8): Circular file references are not allowed.
/compiled/DesktopModules/Admin/Security/manageusers.ascx (67): Unknown server tag 'dnn:profile'.
/compiled/DesktopModules/Admin/Security/EditUser.ascx (5): Circular file references are not allowed.
/compiled/DesktopModules/Admin/Security/EditUser.ascx (163): Unknown server tag 'dnn:Profile'.
/compiled/admin/Users/ViewProfile.ascx (4): Unknown server tag 'dnn:Profile'.
Also, when I checked Use Fixed Naming and Single Page Assemblies together with the Allow this Precompiled site to be updatable. it will throw:
ASPNETCOMPILER: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
when I searched online, I was given two options from this blog.
I have tried the two but still having the same error.
I don't know what I am doing wrong.

Please look at [here] (http://ellisweb.net/2009/12/fixing-the-circular-file-references-are-not-allowed-error-in-asp-net/) for the explanation why you would see this error, simply speaking, if you have the following setup:
/folder1/Control1.ascx > References Control2
/folder2/Control2.ascx > References Control3
/folder1/Control3.ascx
This means that the folder1 dll will reference the folder2 dll which will again reference the folder1 dll, causing a “circular file reference”.
The solution is try to rearrange all controls under each folders, sometimes, you have to make a problem user control copied over to multiple folders to prevent such circular calling.

I changed The Clean WorkSpace property of TFS Build Process Parameters to false.
The error just disappeared and I was able to build successfully into TFS Drop folder. I don't know why this solves the problem but the problem was resolved.

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Try to delete the dll file you have uploaded (from the bin directory), it should resolve the issue.

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