Copying References Asp.net MVC Project Error - c#

I am trying to work on an asp.net project and am having some issues that I don't understand how to fix.
I am new to ASP.NET and am learning step by step.
I have watched some courses on Lynda as well as Pluralsight and wanted to try creating a full project.
I was told by the person teaching me to separate my project into 3 layers
Data Layer
View Layer
Service Layer
So after creating the project, I right clicked on my solution and added 2 new class libraries for the data and service layers.
Then I tried to move the code int the Models folder from the View Layer > Data Layer, and my project started showing errors and not compiling ( I assume from missing all the entity framework references).
Then I tried click References on my Data Layer library > add Reference and referencing the view layer.
That didn't work.
Then, I installed visual studio productivity power tools 2017 to enable the power commands section for copying references.
Then I went to the view layer, copy references and tried pasting into the data layer, and it generated an error saying:
Error HResult E_Fail has been returned from a call to a COM component.
I know when I did the project as 1 layer and I did enable-migrations and update-database all would work, and I assume I have to do that after I get my data layer working.
Is there anything I am doing wrong or incorrectly.
Thanks,

Deleting csproj.user files of all the projects should fix this issue.

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Cycles detected

My project does not add reference to another in the same solution.
I created a project for a website and and abstracted all the parts of the program into .Net Class Libraries (My models in a different class library, Interfaces in a different class library, business logic in a different class library). I referenced all the projects correctly and I also tried creating something I call EntityRepository which I initially kept the DbContext inside. But due to the reason that I wanted to use Microsofts' implementation of Identity and then scaffold the logic out, I could not find the DbContext from the other project which is required when scaffolding so I had to exclude that project out of the solution. Normally when you create a project and select Single user authentication, .Net core adds an initial DbContext into the project. So when scaffolding the implementation of AspNetCore Identity into my project, i have to choose the DbContext. Because of that, my business logic has broken into two sides. The other logic is inside another project in the same solution, the Identity and authentication is inside the startup project which is the web application. When I tried calling the services which implement the business logic from the other project into the web project, it could not add reference to the services project. I now added reference manually. After that I now saw an error written
Detail Error:
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error NU1108 Cycle detected.
CBTSoftware.Web.Host -> CBTSoftware.Services -> CBTSoftware.Web.Host. CBTSoftware.Web.Host C:\Users\Tavershima\source\repos\CBTSoftware\CBTSoftware.Web.Host\CBTSoftware.Web.Host.csproj 1```
How can I resolve this?
Fist I want to show gratitude to those who answered above because they put on the right track to solving this issue. In my case the issue was caused by untrack files causing NU1108 and was resolved by running git clean -fxd
*git clean documentation
I know that this is old but I'd like to add here as well.
I had the same situation as Sebastian Widz answer but what really worked for me was opening the Properties of the problematic project.
This reloaded the project files/dependencies and fixed the "Cycle Detected" issue.
In my case the problem had nothing to do with actual dependencies.
One day I opened a solution (which was fine the day before) and could not compile it. NU1108 Cycle detected error was reported in error log for several projects.
Solution:
Examine all projects in the solution, check the solution content.
If for some projects you see wrong content like if the project had files attached from a different project, expand its nodes and wait a bit, VS should refresh the nodes after a while
You may also try to Clean Solution and Reload each project.
Consider making a project to contain your EntityRepository, like CBTSoftware.Data, and adding a reference to it from your services project:
CBTSoftware.Services -> CBTSoftware.Data
Then, you can continue referencing your services project from your web project:
CBTSoftware.Web.Host -> CBTSoftware.Services
You'll still be able to configure your EntityRepository in your Startup.cs file because it will know about your CBTSoftware.Data project transitively. Just make sure to remove the reference to your web project from your services project, since this is creating a cycle.
I have solved the problem by deleting the DbContext which i created in the Web Project and using the one which I created in another project which is a .Net Library then I added this line of code in my StartUp.cs file
services.AddDbContext<CBTDbContext>(options =>
options.UseSqlServer(Configuration.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection")));
By adding it, I was able to find the DbContext in the Web Project.
Then another problem has arisen when I'm trying to add migrations. Which I would open in another post
I also had this issue
In my case, I was using multiple projects in one solution. And in one of those projects, it's Dependencies was showing warning signs, within these Dependensies, there was a folder with included projects also each showing a warning sign.
I could solve it by right-clicking on the Dependencies, click on 'Add Project Reference' and then unselect all projects related to it/showing the warning signs.
After rebuilding, the cycle problem was gone.

Object referencing across projects in same solution

I had a solution that contained two projects, one for the web layer that also contained the models, and another for a Windows forms project that did some other "stuff". The forms project referenced the web project, and all was fine up until I needed to reference something from the web project in the forms project, which I could not do for circular reference reasons.
So I created a new solution, put the data layer in one project and the web layer in another, so later on I could add the third project, and put in the references I need. Now when I run the web project, I get the following error;
So I understand that the web project is struggling to find my namespace from the data project, but I have referenced it, so I don't know what more to do.
***EDIT
This comes as no shock, but it's the view that's the issue. If I edit my Index.cshtml, it recognises the referenced project. I tried adding;
#using LottoData.Models
and intellisense completed as I typed. However, when I run it now, I get;
Help!
This was my bad. I forgot to change the output type for the data project to "Class Library", it was still set to "Console Program". Changed that, removed and re-added the reference, cleaned and rebuilt and it works fine now. Thanks #David and #Armand for your input.

How to use Code First Migrations When Domain Models in Separate Project from WebUI?

I have a VS 2017 solution with 2 .Net Core 1.1 projects, 1 is just a class library containing all of my domain models and the other is the actual MVC web application containing the contexts (the ApplicationDbContext & one I created) & all of the EFCore assemblies. I'm trying to enable & use migration on the context I created but having trouble being that the context is in the WebUI project and the models are in the class project. Upon 1st execution of Add-Migration command, I got this error about my target project didn't match my migrations assembly, so I figured out how to get around that by changing the migration assembly in Startup.cs. Add-Migration ended up working but the migration file was created in the class project where the EFCore assemblies are not referenced, thus giving an error on the migration file. I thought maybe I'd try and trick it by moving the file to my WebUI project to update the database, but then figured that may not work & there has to be an easier way of doing this. Does anyone know how to setup code first migrations for EFCore to keep track of modifications and update the database when my domain models are in another project? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully this isn't too vague. If more info is needed, I'll be all too happy to post. Thanks.
I may not be understanding the question correctly, but have you tried referencing your domain project in your webUI?

Visual Studio Multi Project Solution Issue

I have this solution in VS 2017 which has multiple projects:
Example.DomainModels
Example.DataAccess
Example.Infrastructure
Example.Web
So well, my Web project references Infrastructure and the Infrastructure project references DataAccess as well as DomainModels projects. The solution is working fine.
However, if inside my Web project, if I try to access any of the entities from the DomainModels, I can easily access that without any errors, even though Web project doesn't have any reference to the DomainModels.
Can you please help me understand how this referencing of the project works? Is it because the web project has indirect reference to the DomainModels (Web -> Infrastructure -> DomainModels)?
Thanks.
Indeed , as per your comments web will have reference to all other projects
When you compile , The Infrastructure will be having references dataaccess and domain model namespaces attached to it hence you are able to access the types or namespaces present in dataaccess and domain models from web since you are refering Infrastructure from web .
Please investigate the Onion architecture: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/36655.onion-architecture-in-asp-net-core-mvc.aspx
The Domain Model should not reference anything. In order to achieve this; you should investigate dependancy inversion. I asked a question recently about dependancy inversion here: Execute code in a class library when you do not have a reference to that class library
If you want to divorce the domain layer from the web then you could introduce a service layer.

Scaffolding in .Net Core with Multiple Projects in Solution

I have created an .Net Core MVC6 application targeting net461. I have used a project structure I am very familiar with in which I place the data, model, and service classes in separate class library projects and the Web project references these.
When I attempt to scaffold a controller I receive an error that multiple matching types exist for the model I am scaffolding.
If I move all code to a single project, scaffolding is successful. If I move the context to Web project and leave the model in a separate project, I receive an error the NO matching types were found.
Has anyone else seen this same issue? Is there a workaround to still use this type of architecture?
Update
I started another project and always get this issue. I get this error when only using 1 extra project for the models. Attached is the error I recieve.
Scaffolding Error
Update 2
When the context and model are in the same project I receive this error.
Error editing dbContext
Cannot post a comment, so I've to write an answer instead. I also had the same issue and opened it on Scaffolding github repository. Here's the response:
currently there is an issue with scaffolding, that it doesn't support
model classes outside of the current project properly.
As a workaround, you can add the model temporarily to your web project
and then move it to the BLL/ DAL projects after scaffolding.
Plus they also opened this issue as a bug, quoting:
Scaffolding fails if model class is in a dependency (project/ library)
of the project on which scaffolding is being run. #251
Project A has a dependeny on Project B. Project B has model class If
you try to run scaffolding on Project A by using model class from
Project B, it fails with the below error: No model type returned for
type:
Hence, as of RC2, this is a bug in scaffolding tooling.

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