 <p>I was able to figure out why it wasn't working. I was running Windows 10 in a VM (using Parallels on a mac), and the created project was saved in a shared drive with the path something like this,</p> <p>\psf\Home\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects...</p> <p>And I guess the file watcher wasn't able to detect file changes and therefore the auto compile wasn't working. I have now created a new project and saved it on c: and the auto compile is working!</p>