I'm trying to download and run working branch onto a second machine from Azure DevOps (formerly VisualStudio.com).
Main machine (VS2017 Pro):
SolutionABC builds and runs perfectly
Branched to SolutionABC-Branch with small changes (external to this issue)
SolutionABC-Branch builds and runs perfectly
SolutionABC-Branch checked in
Second machine (VS2019 Pro):
SolutionABC downloads, builds and runs perfectly
SolutionABC-Branch downloads, but won't build:
Tracing the errors back through the Errors dialog, I get this:
Warning BC40056
Namespace or type specified in the Imports
'Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory' doesn't contain any
public member or cannot be found. Make sure the namespace or the type
is defined and contains at least one public member. Make sure the
imported element name doesn't use any aliases.
A quick Google search leads me here, so following the instructions there are indeed some issues:
Firstly, how can I solve this please?
Secondly, how does this happen when the parent solution from which this is branched runs perfectly on this machine?
Update
It appears that many of the project references (both to other projects in the solution, and also to Microsoft DLL's) are also missing. Through desperation I xcopied the Microsoft DLL's from the initial project to the branched project. This has fixed the issue, but my questions are still unanswered...
Solution
The problem turned out to be the file/path length limitation of VSTS/TFS. Relocating my local repo to a shorter directory name (e.g. C:\TFS) fixed the issue.
Missing DLL files in \bin folder after downloading fully-working solution to a second machine
AFAIK, this issue should not related to TFS/Azure Devops, it is more related to the small changes or the environment settings. Although you think it is (outside the current issue), it may cause the this issue to arise where you can't see/think it.
To resolved this issue, we need to troubleshooting it:
Since the parent solution from which this is branched runs perfectly on the Second machine (VS2019 Pro), we could create a new branch without that small changes, then check if still have this issue?
Then, add those changes and check if you have this issue again.
Note: Try to remove the references from the SolutionABC-Branch solution on the second machine and add them back to check if this issue has been resolved.
Hope this helps.
How to solve this:
Use the nuget package for the Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory
What is causing this:
I would bet that this is pointing out a discrepancy between those two machines. Look in the directory on box 1 listed in the properties of the reference and check that the assembly is there. Verify it is in the same path on box 2. Also check the GAC on both machines. VS/MSBuild tries to be as smart as possible when looking for those assemblies and if the hint path says one thing, and it isn't found there, but the assembly is registered, the build will go through fine.
I am trying to convert a Windows Forms application to UWP using the Desktop Bridge. Since I have (most of) the source code, I'm attempting the conversion using Visual Studio, as opposed to the command-line tool. My application uses some third-party DLLs whose source code I don't have.
After adding a new JavaScript UWP project to my solution, I'm placing the original application's DLLs in a project subfolder as explained in the documentation.
Some of these DLLs are causing strange errors when I build the UWP project. The errors seem to be caused by duplicate resource entries in the DLLs, but curiously enough, these DLLs are referenced without issue in my standard Windows Forms project.
The errors state:
Duplicate entry
'DevExpress.Data.PropertyNamesRes/DevExpress/XtraPrinting/XpsDocumentOptions'
or one of its parents is defined as both resource and scope, which is
not allowed
I've been digging and searching about these errors for hours but I haven't found any meaningful information. I also used ILDASM to analyze the DLL headers but found no obvious issues in them. Has anyone here faced similar issues? Thanks in advance for any information.
Without seeing the complete error is difficult to say, but I've seen similar errors processing resources. If this is the case, this could be the same as this issue
And can be solved adding this property to the jsproj:
<AppxGeneratePrisForPortableLibrariesEnabled>false</AppxGeneratePrisForPortableLibrariesEnabled>
i have to fight against a strange issue in my company. we have 2 .net 2.0 (old, i know) apps, which start with an .asmx-file. the code-behind calls a c#-file, which includes a include abcd directive, whereby abcd originates from a 3rd-party company.
one app is in test and it works fine. the identical one is in production and fails with the error Could not load file or assembly 'abcd.dll' or one of its dependencies. The specified module could not be found.
when i look in the related web.config-files, none of them includes a pointer to abcd.dll, which i first do not understand in the context of the productive environment, where everything works. secondly when i look inside the \bin-folder, i see the related assembly/dll. again: this is identical in both systems.
the only difference of both systems is the fact that visual studio 2.0 (does this really exist?) is available on the test system.
please note: i am aware that assemblies have to be added via solution explorer in visual studio too. but i cannot do this as such an installation is not allowed here. but again: in web.config on the test server no reference can be found in the related web.config and everythings works fine.
so my question is: how to get this thing working in productive env?
thanks in advance
You may want to run Dependency Walker (depends.exe) http://www.dependencywalker.com/ and point it at to detect if any dependencies are missing.
I'd also look in the GAC (C:\Windows\assembly) to see if there are any related differences there.
Also, compare IIS setting on the two machines.
After migrating from my old Macbook Pro to my new one, I find that my project will no longer run. Grails keeps giving me a "Error /Users/Michael/{proj}/{proj} does not appear to be part of a Grails application". Refresh dependencies does seem to run successfully.
I have verified the following:
there exists a folder grails-app in the project folder at the same location as on the old machine.
I did run a grails clean followed by a grails upgrade to 2.0.4
The one thing it could be is that the user directory name has changed between the two machines, but I do not see the old user directory name in either .project or application.properties or in any settings.
I solved this by deleting workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.debug.core\.launches\<project>.launch. It had cached the old absolute path.
Open the command line from within STS and executed a "run-app". There is sometime a problem with he workspace caches.
oops, saw that I had left this question unanswered.
The answer was to erase everything and rebuild from github. When in doubt, nuke it until it glows....
Armand's answer above was the simplest solution - thanks Armand
This has been my experience - when working with the Grails in the IDE - in certain cases it's better to use the command line to issue grails commands (this was a good reminder)
Related to this, it seems better to run-app from cmd line as well (as opposed to using the IDE Project->Run As), since you can just stop the server easily with ctrl-c
When using Visual Studio 2008, when I "Publish Web Site", the application builds correctly, but then I get a "Publish failed" message:
What possible reasons are there for this, and how can I prevent it?
I had the same issue. Nightmare to identify the problem, because the logs and outputs show no errors or failures. I simply get "Build: 39 succeeded" and "Publish: 1 failed".
I resolved the problem by systematically removing all NuGet packages one at a time (and removing code that references it) until I identified the offending one.
This takes a LONG time!
However, the answer for me was Microsoft.Net.Compilers.
No idea how I ended up with that in my project, but as soon as I removed that package, everything publishes fine again.
Edit - For what it's worth, this problem occurs on VS 2008, 2012 and 2015 but does not occur on 2017.
You can try this:
Perform precompilation against the web application.
Clear the target directory(virtual directory in IIS or physical file
folder) and deploy all the files (of the web application) into the target
directory.
In the output window you can check at which stage does the publish website
operation fail. For example, at the first stage, if there are some error
which will only occur at precompilation, that will cause the stage 1 fail.
Or some times if the target directory has something configured incorrectly.
Such as the IIS virtual dir is not set to the correct ASP.NET version or
some old files are locked and prevent them from being cleared. Mostly,
publish failed will be caused by IIS side configuration issue such as
authentication setting....
Source link
You can open the output window by pressing Ctrl+W, O.
Sometimes it's because you need to be running VS as Administrator to be able to write to the target directory.
Check the Output messages, they should help you solve the problem
I had to copy project to C:\a\ and than publish. I suspect problems with long path. Strange, but worked for me.
The conclusion is: Try another VS edition and see if that does it.
Here is what did it for me.
I have VS 2013 Pro and Visual Studio 2015 Community. I sort of use one or another to work on my MVC project and all was fine. Then all of the sudden VS 2013 could not publish though it would build just fine. There was no erros other than some silly ...code is not returned from all paths...
So when I open it in VS 2017 - it published the same project just fine. I am suspecting a compiling issue - because that was the stage it would fail at.
Hope that helps you save a bit of time.
Not sure if this happens in different versions of Visual Studio, but at least in 2015 Professional Edition, the problem arises when we try to update all Nuget packages from the solution using the Packages Manager.
As pointed out by #SimonGoldstone the issue is caused by the package "Microsoft.Net.Compilers". By default, the package gets added to the solution while creating a new web application. The default version 1.0.0 does not introduce any problems. I was able to keep testing with latest versions until 2.4.0 and everything works fine, but from 2.6.0 henceforth is when it all starts. If an update is strictly required, I would recommend updating the aforementioned package until version 2.4.0. After doing some research, seems that some bugs on later versions than 2.4.0 are introduced and not fixed on the long term. What is curious though, is how this problem gets included on Nuget with no basic quality control checkpoint.
There are many proposed solutions for this. I think they are overcomplicating the issue.
I found the following worked for me:
Locate the obj(Release or Debug) folder in your solution
Inside the Release or Debug folder delete the CONTENTS of the 'AspnetCompileMerge' folder
Now try and publish.
Make sure you empty the target folder (manually) before publishing. Sometimes vs cant delete a file which will result in a failed publish
After trying a Rebuild, having other Projects in my Solution able to publish correctly, and changing my publish location to the C: drive (locally attached) instead of pushing to a mapped network drive, I was still having an issue where the only error output said:
========== Build: 5 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
========== Publish: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========
My solution is targeting x86, but I think during a Git Merge, this project had it's profile switched to Any CPU. After creating an x86 profile for the project and having it match the target of the publish goal and of the active solution configuration, I was able to successfully publish again.
Check Project BIn directory. there must be a DLL of your page or control. which has to be recreated during publish. So exclude it or remove it
I ran into this same problem today and it was due to the Thumbs.db file that was created when I opened my images folder to look for an image. I deleted the file and the project deployed successfully. Hope this helps someone else in the same situation.
Delete publish profile and create another one . Worked for me
In my case, I was publishing to a directory in a mapped network drive, but the Output panel/window was indicating that the location didn't exist. The path was correct, and the drive was fully accessible. The problem resolved itself when I re-set the path to publish to in Visual Studio by using the ... button.
With me it was simple - the dist folder was locked. I unlocked it by an unlocker and the publishing resumed.
I have several user controls that are registered in the web.config, and have a ClassName in the .ascx file header. For normal builds everything works fine, but with a publish those class names were not recognized anymore. At some point I found out that the errors were not in my regular code files, but in copies in a temp directory for publishing.
I had "Precompile during publishing" turned on (to be found under Settings > File Publish Options). Turning that option off worked for me.
I had the same issue with VS2017 with a website project. Build worked, but publish gave me an error:
Error CS0012: The type 'System.Net.Http.HttpMessageHandler' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'System.Net.Http, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'.
All my projects already had a reference to System.Net.Http so it was really confusing.
To fix it, I had to copy System.Net.Http.dll into my website project / bin folder so publish could find it and copy it to my web host. I found System.Net.Http.dll by looking at another project's references (a class library), then System.Net.Http.dll Properties, and seeing the path (C:\Program Files(x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NetFramework\v4.6\System.Net.Http.dll).
i know iam late but i think it should use for someone whos searching for this query.
just uninstall all your nuget pakages , then clean and rebuilt solution ,
now click on publish , sure it works and u will see publishing starts and works correctly now
If any one had changed the version of the project file and related framework. then this type of issue happened.
please go to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v16.0\Web" location for visual studio published and build setting -> edit -> comment the force copy of all file section.
I had one file that was not found. I had copied in a png file to replace a jpg in the content folder , same name except filetype extension.
Project built fine, but refused to build and publish . changed extension of file so it could find that file name and it worked - no errors amazing 1 thing wrong and everything else is an error.
The case for me was that Visual Studio was not signed in to Azure, but provided no indication of that. I edited the publish profile, clicked "Validate Connection" then clicked "Save" and then it worked.
I was working on a feature branch, which was failing. Switched to Master Branch, deleted the feature one and created another one. It worked.
What caused my issue was a little different, but has similarities to some of the reasons stated above.
I managed to trash my local copy of a given application and did a GIT hard reset to get the most recent from the repository in question. This in turn, wiped out the web.config file (which was not stored in the GIT repository for various reasons).
This cause configuration information for various NuGet packages to be "lost" (since it was stored in web.config).
Fortunately, I had "backed up" the web.config, so once I figured out it was not out there (a migration failed because I was unable to connect to the database), I was able to replace it.
Tried the publish again, after fixing the web.config, and everything worked perfectly.
If you are opting for the "Delete all existing files prior to publish" in the publish web dialog box, then make sure that the Visual Studio is started with Admin rights. Right click the Visual Studio and click Run as Administrator. Hope this helps.