I have to enabled diagnostic mode of MSBuild project build output verbosity to see this:
1>Done executing task "EnableExtension" -- FAILED. (TaskId:81)
1>Done building target "DeployVsixExtensionFiles" in project "myextension.csproj" -- FAILED.: (TargetId:93)
...
1>Build FAILED.
1>
1>Time Elapsed 00:00:01.27
========== Rebuild All: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========
My problem is I cannot debug the Visual Studio extension package I'm working on, as the build output says something has failed. What's wired, the obj and bin folders with all content inside (including vsix package), has been created. I don't really know what special I've changed, because few hours ago everything was fine.
How can I investigate what has gone wrong ?
Btw: I'm using VS 2012 Premium Update 1
EDIT:
I remembered what I've done. While being in debug mode, I entered Tools -> Extensions and Updates, and uninstalled my currently debugged extension (without restarting VS after that operation). Further attempt of debugging (F5 after CLOSING Experimental Instance of VS) results in this mysterious build behavior.
My current workaround I've come up with after some time is to change the display name of the extension package in the source.extension.vsixmanifest file:
<Metadata>
...
<DisplayName>Change this name to sth else and press F5</DisplayName>
...
</Metadata>
Nothing else needs to be changed (unfortunately reversion to old name still fires this error, but at least developing and debugging can be continued).
UPDATE:
I've checked the windows registry for such problematic name, and found following PendingDeletions key:
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1832937852-2116575123-337272265-599953\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0Exp\ExtensionManager\PendingDeletions
Under this key there is value pointing at my extension I've previously uninstalled (while being in the debug mode):
C:\USERS\G_159\APPDATA\LOCAL\MICROSOFT\VISUALSTUDIO\11.0EXP\EXTENSIONS\JAROSLAW WALISZKO\MYEXTENSION\1.0\
Removal of this entry fixes that case.
Davide Icardi commented:
Another solution is to manually open the Visual Studio experimental instance. Starting it caused all the pending extensions to be deleted automatically.
To start the experimental instance, run this command in a developer command prompt:
devenv.exe /RootSuffix Exp
Update: I'm dumb - after installing the VS 2013 SDK, there's a shortcut to start the experimental instance in the Visual Studio 2013 folder of the Start menu.
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I've just updated my VS to ver. 16.8.3 and now suddenly I am getting this error:
2>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\MSBuild\Current\Bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(1720,5): error :
Internal MSBuild error: Non-CrossTargeting GetTargetFrameworks target should not be used in cross targeting (outer) build
Not sure at all what to do about this.
We have been working on this project for years and never had such an issue.
Any thoughts?
Seems that the problem is with projects that use multiple .net frameworks AND they referenence ANOTHER project that uses multiple .net frameworks
I have a MINIMAL sample solution at: my public drive
The solution contains two minimal/empty projects that are technically the same except that the one named Microdesk.DbApp referencing the one name Microdesk.Infrastructure.
The Infrastructure project compiles fine while the DbApp project throws the above error.
This solution was working fine for us for multiple years and broke with the latest VS release 16.8.3
Okay, partially my bad.
I did re-compile the EMPTY sample project and found that despite the compiler error, the solution does build.
1>------ Rebuild All started: Project: Microdesk.BIMrxCommon.Infrastructure, Configuration: Debug2020 Any CPU ------
1> Microdesk.BIMrxCommon.Infrastructure -> C:\Work\Microdesk.BIMrx\bin\Debug2020\Microdesk.BIMrxCommon.Infrastructure.dll
2>------ Rebuild All started: Project: Microdesk.BIMrxCommon.DbApp, Configuration: Debug2020 Any CPU ------
2>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\MSBuild\Current\Bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(1720,5): error : Internal MSBuild error: Non-CrossTargeting GetTargetFrameworks target should not be used in cross targeting (outer) build
2> Microdesk.BIMrxCommon.DbApp -> C:\Work\Microdesk.BIMrx\bin\Debug2020\Microdesk.BIMrxCommon.DbApp.dll
========== Rebuild All: 2 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========
BUT if you try to USE anything from the Infrastructure project in the referencing DbApp project then the Solution will NOT compile
Rebuild started...
1>------ Rebuild All started: Project: Microdesk.BIMrxCommon.Infrastructure, Configuration: Debug2020 Any CPU ------
2>------ Rebuild All started: Project: Microdesk.BIMrxCommon.DbApp, Configuration: Debug2020 Any CPU ------
2>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\MSBuild\Current\Bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(1720,5): error : Internal MSBuild error: Non-CrossTargeting GetTargetFrameworks target should not be used in cross targeting (outer) build
2>C:\Work\Microdesk.BIMrx\BIMrxCommon\Microdesk.BIMrxCommon.DbApp\DerivedClass.cs(1,29,1,4
): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Infrastructure' does not exist in the namespace 'Microdesk.BIMrxCommon' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
2>C:\Work\Microdesk.BIMrx\BIMrxCommon\Microdesk.BIMrxCommon.DbApp\DerivedClass.cs(5,33,5,42): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'BaseClass' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
========== Rebuild All: 1 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========
I did upload a second sample project named "Microdesk.BIMrx (2).zip" to the previous OneDrive directory
When I test your issue in your side, I did not face the same behaviors as you described. So I guess that there is some issues on your current vs environment due to the update. And maybe the update broke some tools of VS.
So please try the following steps to troubleshoot it:
Suggestions
1) disable any third party installed extensions under Extensions-->Manage Extensions-->Installed
2) close VS, delete .vs hidden folder, every bin and obj folder of your project.
and also delete all cache files under C:\Users\xxx(current user)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\16.0_xxx\ComponentModelCache
Then, restart VS to test again.
3) or create a new project and then migrate the content from the old into the new one to test whether the issue is related to your VS or the special project itself.
4) If this does not work, do an initialization operation on your VS.
Close VS, delete the whole user folder under C:\Users\xxx(current user)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\16.0_xxx and then restart VS to test again.
5) repair vs from the vs_installer
I have an ASP.NET core 1.0 project I created in Visual Studio 2015 (update 3). If I try to build the project within VS I get the following in my output window and there are no errors in the Error List:
1>------ Build started: Project: QuickStartIdentiyServer4, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
However, if I build the project using the dotnet CLI command (dotnet build) it builds and runs just fine.
UPDATE:
Apparently, .net core does not work properly when running Visual Studio as Admin. You would think everything should work as Admin, I guess not... go figure.
There are simply too many reasons why this type of thing might happen. The easiest way to diagnose the problem is to change the build output verbosity under options to verbose. This might help put you on the trail:
With regards to this type of thing happening with .Net Core and ASP Core. I have noticed that the project.json dependencies json fragment is a bit buggy especially if you start renaming projects and changing their file system location.
If you see in the diagnostic below you know there is some dangling reference issue:
Done building target "_GetDependencyFragmentFiles" in project "<<?YOUR_CORE_PROJECT?>>.xproj" -- FAILED
May be you are not seeing build errors. Go to Error List window and change 'Show Issues generated' box from 'Build + Intellisense' to 'Build Only' and try to build again.
See if this helps.
I right-clicked on my C++ project - Properties - Configuration Properties - Build Events - Post-Build Event and set the command line to calc.
I now do Build - Rebuild Solution and although I get this in the Output pane Calculator never launches.
========== Rebuild All: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========
I even tried Configuration Properties - Custom Build Step - General and set the command line to notepad and Execute After to CoreBuild but nothing happened on Rebuild Solution either.
NB: My Post-Build event is actually a copy command but since that isn't working I wanted to break it down to something simpler.
I inherited this project and it had several configurations in it (ANSI Debug/Release and Unicode Debug/Release).
Since I am only targeting Unicode I manually removed those sections from the sln and vcxproj files.
With this in mind, it then became clearer that Visual Studio was showing different options for different configurations.
After switching to the All Configurations options and deleting from the other sections I could make calc run.
xcopy still failed for a while as $(TargetPath) didn't resolve correctly when the OuputFile option had been changed in the Linker to suffix "_Debug" for the debug config.
It all seems to work now.
Under Visual Studio 2010, I am trying to create msi installer for two projects, and the build with:
Error 5 'PostBuildEvent' failed with error code '1' 'Unspecified
error'
However, when I go inside the log I see:
Packaging file 'adxloader.dll'...
Packaging file 'Extensibility.dll'...
Starting post-build events...
The system cannot find the path specified.
However, my setup files are correctly created. It looks like after they are created Visual Studio is trying to copy them somewhere else. How can I solve this problem?
I am using Bamboo [from Altassian] and it uses the devenv.com builder to build solution files. Currently, I seem to be getting a "false" error in my builds - that I've tried to solve by myself but just can't - so I thought I would ask.
Each build succeeds normally - without errors stemming from code - but seems to instead give this error
Package 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.TestCaseManagement.QualityToolsPackage, Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.TestCaseManagement, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' failed to load.
I've no idea why this is causing problems in the devenv.com environment and I can't figure out either how to "ignore" this error by some build command?
Try this ( from MSFT support )
Can you check if the dll is in the global assembly cache (open a VS 2010 command prompt
(Start | All Programs | Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0 | Visual Studio Tools))
Type in
Gacutil –l > list.txt
Notepad list.txt
Do you see an entry like
Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.TestCaseManagement, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a, processorArchitecture=MSIL
If so, from the same command prompt, run fuslogvw, go to settings, select log bind failures to disk, select ok
Run your command line
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.com /Build "Release|Mixed Platforms" "D:\Builds\19\Test VizXView\VizXView v1.8 Test Release Build - Weekly\Sources\VizXView v1.8\VizXView 1.8.sln"
Click on the refresh button in fuslogvw. Do we get any bind errors?
I had a similar issue related to running unit tests on a build server that was using devenv.exe (not devenv.com). I had a premium VS installed on the build server but I'd written the unit tests with ultimate (which 'has' load testing, even tho I'd not used it). I used fusion viewer to work out that the missing dll was LoadTest.dll which I copied from my laptop to the buildserver, I also removed references in my solution that were in version control to: *.vsmdi and *.testsettings (they're deprecated) and I removed from the build def a reference to a .testsettings file.
My guess would be that even though I wasn't running a load unit test the build agent was trying to load the LoadTest libs just in case. Hope that helps
edit ---
ok, my own problem here was that I've got both vs2010 and vs2013 on my laptop. When I added the first test project to my VS2010 solution, the project added actually has a dependency on the 2013 version of the UnitTestFramework.dll. My build server only has vs2010 on it so I got the missing assembly error. Switching the reference to the 2010 version fixed this.