After installing the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2015 (RC1 update 1) I get the following error within ASP.NET MVC 4 projects when opening *.cshtml files:
Object reference not set to instance of an object
I get the same error message even if I start a new ASP.NET MVC 4 project and try to open a *.cshtml file there.
I'm using Visual Studio 2015
Maybe this helps:
Delete the contents from the following folders:
C:\Users\%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio
C:\Users\%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VSCommon
Sometimes, you need to go to:
[x64] C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE
[x86] C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE
and run devenv /resetuserdata.
Expect, that all of your user settings such as Visual Studio layout, linked Microsoft account or start page might disappear.
Delete %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ComponentModelCache and restart Visual Studio.
Alternatively, use the Clear MEF Component Cache extension.
For me,
I ended the process in Windows Task Manager: VsHub.exe.
Restarted Visual Studio.
After that, everything works like a charm again!
I solved it doing
run devenv /resetuserdata
in this path:
[x64] C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE
I assume that in x86 it works in this path:
[x86] C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE
It's recommended to try any or all of the following:
Restart Visual Studio
Try Running As Administrator (right-click Visual Studio and choose "Run As Administrator")
Check for any updates for Visual Studio (download and install them if any are available)
Try opening a different solution / project
If problems persist, you might try the following options:
Restart your local machine
Attempt to reset Visual Studio to System Defaults (this can be done from the options within Visual Studio)
Attempt to repair your Visual Studio installation
In the hopes it might narrow things down/help someone, I did an investigatory approach. For me, I initially moved the folder at C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio to My Documents and allowed Visual Studio to re-create it by re-launching it. This removed the errors. So I moved everything back, one-by-one, and restarted Visual Studio each time until I discovered the culprits. These folders were fine to move back in:
1033 (overwrote the auto-generated copy with old)
Designer (was in my old copy, not initially re-created when I re-launched VS, copied it back in)
Extensions (overwrote the auto-generated copy with old)
ImageLibrary (overwrote the auto-generated copy with old)
Notifications (overwrote the auto-generated copy with old)
STemplate (was in my old copy, not initially re-created when I re-launched VS, copied it back in)
VTC (was in my old copy, not initially re-created when I re-launched VS, copied it back in)
These files were fine to move back in/overwrite the auto-generated ones:
ApplicationPrivateSettings (was in my old copy, not initially re-created when I re-launched VS)
ApplicationPrivateSettings.lock (overwrote the auto-generated copy with old)
vspdmc.lock (overwrote the auto-generated copy with old)
These files were fine to move back in. Each was in my old copy, and not initially re-created when I re-launched VS:
.NETFramework,Version=v4.0,Set=Framework,Hash=C958D412.dat
.NETFramework,Version=v4.0,Set=RecentAssemblies,Hash=0.dat
.NETFramework,Version=v4.5,Set=Extensions,Hash=75EAE334.dat
.NETFramework,Version=v4.5,Set=Extensions,Hash=497525A2.dat
.NETFramework,Version=v4.5,Set=Framework,Hash=5AE9A175.dat
.NETFramework,Version=v4.5.2,Set=Extensions,Hash=24CEEB0D.dat
.NETFramework,Version=v4.5.2,Set=Extensions,Hash=72AE305.dat
.NETFramework,Version=v4.5.2,Set=Extensions,Hash=ADF899D7.dat
.NETFramework,Version=v4.5.2,Set=Framework,Hash=D8E943A2.dat
These caused problems - delete these files and re-launch VS to allow it to re-create them:
ComponentModelCache - When I overwrote this folder's contents with my old ones (4 files: MS.VS.Default.cache, .catalogs, .err, .external), this gave me all of the errors I had gotten before about not being able to load packages when loading my project, and the "object reference not set to an instance of an object" error when trying to close VS.
devenv.exe.config - same as ComponentModelCache
.NETFramework,Version=v4.0,Set=Extensions,Hash=6D09DECC.dat - causes error output from the JavaScript Language Service, complaining of missing js files
.NETFramework,Version=v4.0,Set=Extensions,Hash=9951BC03.dat - causes error output from the JavaScript Language Service, complaining of missing js files
.NETFramework,Version=v4.5.2,Set=RecentAssemblies,Hash=0.dat - causes error output from the JavaScript Language Service, complaining of missing js files
These are the errors from those last .NETFramework files (which I do not get if I do not add them back in):
01:10:11.7550: Referenced file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\JavaScript\References\libhelp.js' not found.
01:10:11.7550: Referenced file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\JavaScript\References\sitetypesWeb.js' not found.
01:10:11.7550: Referenced file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\JavaScript\References\domWeb.js' not found.
01:10:11.7550: Referenced file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\JavaScript\References\underscorefilter.js' not found.
01:10:11.7550: Referenced file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\JavaScript\References\showPlainComments.js' not found.
I might just need to re-install/repair the JavaScript Language Service plug-in, so it might be un-related. But definitely devenv.exe.config and ComponentModelCache need to go to correct the "object reference not set to an instance of an object" error.
For me, ASP.NET 5 is not yet required, I removed update, and then reinstalled ASP.NET 4.5. It's a bit tricky:
Removed from control panel "Microsoft ASP.NET 5 RC1 Update1". After that, you will no longer open ASP.NET MVC projects
Then I changed the installation of "Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2015", clicked "Modify", and selected "Microsoft Web Developer Tools"
No longer follow the notification of update in Visual Studio 2015!!!
After trying the top answer, I found that you must also restart the computer. The error may be part of a git issue as well where restarting your computer will reset.
I was getting an exception every time I tried to create a "new" project.
My solution was:
Go menu Tools → Extensions and Updates
Check the "Updates" link... There was an update to Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools. Install it.
That fixed it for me.
In my case (not necessarily be the solution for you, but it may be helpful for someone), the solution was:
Go menu Tools → Extensions and Updates
Select the Online tab from the right panel
Search for the words web tools, and then select Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools and install it.
In my case, this was missing from my computer because of a lot of repairing operations for Visual Studio.
I was getting similar error in VS2017 while trying to publish my solution to Azure.
This algorithm helped me to resolve it:
Close VS2017
Open C:\Users{your user name}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\ folder
Rename 15.0_08edcd83 folder
Start VS
Publish works fine!
Note that this will remove your Visual Studio's recent files / projects from it's history and also linking to MS account.
This method is slightly different from the Top answer. Here you don't have to delete other folders except renaming abovementioned one.
I was getting this exception every time I created a "new" project.
My solution was:
Go menu Tools ? Extensions and Updates
Not check the "Updates" link...search "asp.net". There was an
update to Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools. Get it as
AspNetWebFrameworksTools2015_KB3137909.exe and install it.
That fixed it for me.
Unfortunately, I ran into another exception:
"Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation"
I disabled the FIPS setting Enabled DWORD value to zero.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\FipsAlgorithmPolicy]
Enabled=dword:00000000 And All fixed.
Goto windows+R and type %temp% and hit enter. delete the temp folder and files and then try opening the same
I have been fighting with this during the whole weekend. But it's pretty easy to do it. What I did was to click on repair rather than uninstall. After repairing, I clicked on restart directly. After that, everything is working perfectly.
You should try this, may be it can work also for you!!!
Restarting Visual Studio did it for me. On the next run, it displayed a "Scanning new and updated MEF components ..." and then it executed normally.
It seems to be related to Windows update somehow, although I don't have proof.
Delete bin and obj folders in all projects of that solution.
Seems like those folders were having old files generated by some older version of visual studio, which are not compatible with new version of visual studio.
The solution to the issue when i had this earlier today was that there was an additional
set of tags bolted on the end of my Web.config. Once removed the functionality returned.
Problem:
My VS 2015 was throwing up error after I installed SSDT. Whenever I clicked on Tools >> Extensions and Update it was throwing "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error. When I tried to open a solution it threw some provider not set correctly.
Solution:
After many hours of research trying out all the solutions previously mentioned by others didn't solve my problem. Every time the error popup was pointing to check the ActivityLog.xml. But I was ignoring it. After hours of frustration I decided to read the error carefully and looked into ActivitLog.xml and found that it was looking for "Could not load file or assembly 'System.Collections.Immutable, Version=1.1.37.0". So I just started searching for this assembly and stumbled upon this link https://sergeytihon.com/2015/12/01/how-to-restore-viual-studio-2015-after-update-1-dependency-dance/
and followed the steps there, which fixed my issue.
Went into %LOCALAPPDATA%/Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\devenv.exe.config and searched for "System.Collections.Immutable" and change newVersion from 1.1.36.0 to 1.1.37.0
Final config should look like this
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="System.Collections.Immutable" publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a" culture="neutral"/>
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.27.0-1.1.65535.65535" newVersion="1.1.37.0"/>
</dependentAssembly>
I'm developing using ASP.NET in Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web. Everything works great but suddenly when changing some code in one of my controllers Visual Studio crashed and now I got this weird runtime error:
Warning 1 \Views_Create.cshtml: ASP.NET runtime error: Could not load file or assembly 'EntityFramework, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies. The parameter is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070057 (E_INVALIDARG))
My project still works fine though only a bit slower than before but every aspect of code, views, models, controller works just fine. Only in my studio the lines using EF are being underlined and marked as warning which is kinda annoying!
I already tried to uninstall and install EF or upgrade to EF 6.1 but no results...
Anybody an idea how to resolve this problem?
The answer posted in a similar question solved the problem for me:
Delete all files from the following folders and try again:
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Temp\Temporary ASP.NET Files\
%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\
%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\
%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\
%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\
I was trying to create a new database in WebMatrix, and I was shown this error: "Could not load file or assembly "Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=Neutral, PublicKeyToken=blablabla" or one of its dependencies. System cannot find the file specified.
I am sure that there is some error in SQL Server, but I am not getting help from anyone.
I have already searched alot for this issue. But the main thing is they are all providing help solutions for Visual Studio, none of them are giving some example for web.config or should I say for WebMatrix, I know in VS its pretty simple and easy, but what about WebMatrix?
All that I came upto is somelike in web.config under assemblies, but how to connect it? Or if it is there, how to check whether the file is on system or not?
My question basically is just to know whether the file is in the system; it was installed correctly of not, and to connect it to the project to create new Databases.
Nobody helped I guess! So I tried to find the answer myself. What I found on some other forums was this:
That the dlls are found under this folder:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\SDK\Assemblies
And to add them in your site, using WebMatrix will Require some Helper; because I use WebMatrix not Visual Studio.
So for that I will require something:
#using Helper.Name;
The issue for me was that the dll was not installed in Windows 8. And was not able to run so the exception showed up.
I am using ASP.NET 2.0 (Visual Studio 2005) and Oracle 10g database
my application do not have build errors.Build is succeeded.
But i am getting run time error.
The below thing is the error which is i am getting.
Exception Details: System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL 'OraOps10w.dll': The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
Please help me in this.
Oracle Data Provider needs theses dlls : Oracle.DataAccess.dll and OraOps11w.dll
add reference to Oracle.DataAccess.dll
The assembly OraOps10w.dll is not referenced in your project (which is probably ok like that), and so it compiles ok.
But at runtime, any referenced Oracle assemblies most likely call in their turn the OraOps10w.dll, which they cannot find at the location of the running assembly.
I suspect you copied the Oracle assembly you needed for compilation (typically the Oracle.DataAccess.dll), while you should reference it at its original location (namely, the Oracle HOME installation directory).
edit: Very similar question to NHibernate Oracle - Unable to load DLL 'OraOps10w.dll'
As is mentioned in an answer to that question, you could install the Oracle XEClient (free download, around 20MB), and reference the Oracle.DataAccess.dll in that location. Keep in mind that you'll have to install this package on each client in order to work !
I'm having a problem when browsing a published site on local iis7 (on windows 7).
When browsing the asp.net site through VS2008 with F5 (dev iis) it works fine. When publishing it and browsing, I get a:
Server Error in '/MySite' Application.
The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
Stack trace offers no clue on the problematic dll either. I copied the same published folder to a different machine (also with windows 7 32bit and iis 7) and it works.
Since this is a fresh install of iis on my machine, I verified the matching selected items in "Turn Windows Features on/off". After noticing the issue I also ran the "aspnet_regiis" util, but the problem remains.
The web site includes several external dlls (native and managed) and they all appear in the published bin folder (which is identical to the development bin folder)
Any insights?
Cheers,
Shay
As gleaned from this thread: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/netfx64bit/thread/f609f52e-00f6-4ada-9d6e-7129b85d3d4d/, as mentioned toward the bottom of the thread (second to last post as of right now), our problem was a "rogue" dll, Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.dll. We simply removed the dll and no more error. Additionally, as no project in the solution referenced this dll, I simply removed it from the bin file and subsequent builds/publishes do not add the dll. I have no idea how the dll got in the bin file in the first place. A college prank, maybe.
Native dlls are supposed to be locatable in the PATH. Problem was they were under the User PATH and not the System PATH, so it worked fine through the VS but not through the IIS. I added the dll folder to the system PATH and everything worked...
A long shot in most cases but check you have good .NET Framework libraries. Was getting nothing from old Framework 2.0 website maintained with VS 2005 running on IIS 6 except plain text in browser window stating the error. Fiddler and Firebug reveled nothing. Started checking this, that and the other thing. Perhaps when wondering about using aspnet_iisreg that the C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319 folder was discovered to have only a handful of files. Doesn't make a lot of sense, the applications were 2.0 but there is some cross application communication and several libraries so maybe some are run as 4.0 or it might be that IIS will try to use some things from the highest version of .NET Framework available.
A co-worker more knowledgeable about servers repaired the 4.0 Framework with the stand alone installer from here.
Runs well now.
This error occurred for me when the .Net Framework on the target server was only 4.5.2 and a recently upgraded Nuget package required 4.7.2. To temporarily solve it, we downgraded the Nuget library to a previous version that did not require 4.7.2 until we can upgrade the server library.
This was in spite of our project properties having .NET Framework 4.5.2 selected as a target framework.