Using Visual Studio 2010 to build a setup project that installs a Windows Forms application .Net 4.0 C#. It has worked fine for ages but now when I'm trying to install the finished setup file, I'm getting this error message:
Error 1001. Unable to get installed types in the "Path" assembly. -->
Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the
LoaderExceptions property for more information.
I have been searching for answers for over 4 hours now without finding anything. This problem just came without me doing anything. Last time I build the install file was like 2 weeks ago and there was NO problem at all. I haven't deleted any reference or any code that have anything to do with the setup project.
How could this problem appear from nothing and more important, how do I fix it?
Based on the error message in your second comment, it appears that your SysDir.exe assembly has been added as a Custom Action with the InstallerClass property set to true, but either no installer classes could be found in the exe or the exe could not be loaded due to missing dependencies.
You can see the list of Custom Actions by right-clicking on the installer project, selecting View and then Custom Actions.
If your exe does not can an installer class, then you can remove it from the list of custom actions.
If it does contain an installer class, then the issue is going to be missing dependencies. If fuslogvw doesn't work for you (it has always helped resolve this kind of issue for us), you can carefully review the list of references in the exe's project and compare them to what is listed in the installer project.
The other trick that we use is to examine the install directory while the error message is displayed on the screen. We can often see that DLLs are missing by doing this, usually because the path was entered incorrectly in the DLL entry within the installer project or because a condition was set incorrectly.
Have the same error today. For me it was the project type of the class library.
I noticed that the pucture on the guide I was following had selected Class Library (.NET Framework) instead of just Class Library.
Creating the correct project type fixed the error.
https://nhvu1988.com/posts/how-to-create-msi-installer-using-vs-installer/
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I have some troubles with Windows.ApplicationModel.Package class.
When I try to add the reference to Windows.ApplicationModel or when I'm getting the current package, 17000+ errors appears.
How I try to get the current package :
var myPackage = Windows.ApplicationModel.Package.Current;
The kind of error I get :
error APPX1704: The file .winmd 'Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract.winmd' contains type 'Windows.Graphics.Effects.IGraphicsEffect'. The use of spacename Windows is reserved.
Or
error APPX1706: The .winmd file 'Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract.winmd' contains type 'Windows.Graphics.Effects.IGraphicsEffect' outside its root namespace 'Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract'. Make sure that all public types appear under a common root namespace
that matches the output file name.
Is there a solution to this problem or a better way to get the current version ?
For the first problem I am a bit uncertain, but it is always good idea to reboot (ide, os, etc.), if this is not helping maybe reinstall the SDK, IDE. I know this is not complete answer, it is just from experience.
The second error is saying that your namespaces are not consistent. It means that instead of having Example.Logic, Example.Domain, Example.Utils - you have something like Example.Logic, Test.Domain, Utils (inconsistency of namespaces).
I found the source of the issue, it was due to the structure of the solution.
Just like in a Xamarin application, we have a "Core" project that contains the application logic.
We tried to use some Windows app specific namespaces in these shared classes, instead of creating an interface in the Core project and implementing it in the UWP project.
Removing the line with the reference to the Windows.ApplicationModel.Package class from the core project and move it to the UWP project resolved the issue.
Sorry for the lack of information on the original post.
I've got a C# program that was built as a Windows service. I tested this last week and it worked fine, but today I'm getting an error.
When I try to install using installutil.exe, I get the error:
Could not load file or assembly [file name] or one of its dependencies. The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest.
Rebuilding the project had no effect. I also noticed in task manager that the service is still listed and running. On the chance that might be interfering with the installation, I tried uninstalling via installutil, but got the same error message back again.
I've seen many other questions related to this error, but most of them have either no answer, or a very specific answer related to their unique situation. Has anybody had this happen, and how did you fix it? Any ideas are appreciated.
Update:
I successfully uninstalled the service using the "sc delete" command via command prompt, but I'm still getting the same error from installutil on trying to reinstall.
Update 2:
Just for the sake of trying something, I deleted the bin folder from the project, reopened the solution, and did a clean and build. It still won't install, but now I've got a different message:
This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded.
Question:
What would cause there to be a mismatch in runtimes? As far as I know, I've only used .NET Framework 4.5 and haven't deviated. Is there a value I should be looking at / changing to fix that?
Update 3:
Here's what I've tried so far:
One answer suggested the version of installutil being used matters. I'd been running v2.0.50727, but there's also a v4.0.30319 I hadn't thought to try. Running this resulted in:
An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format...
I'd be willing to work on that error instead, if it would solve the problem. However, I'm compelled to think that's not the problem since I'd been successfully running v2.0.etc just before the first error popped up.
Inside App.config, there's a line "supported Runtime version=v4.0". I switched this to 4.5, but it had no effect good or bad.
I tried switching the target framework (under project properties) down to 4.0, but this cause an error with:
Some NuGet packages were installed using a target framework different from the current target framework, etc...
This was referring to the EntityFramework, and I'd rather not start messing with NuGet again unless it's the only way (last time it was a nightmare).
I tried installing the service on the target server (the machine it will eventually be deployed to) and got the same error. This leads me to think it's a problem with the project / solution and not the pc.
Looks like a assembly loading problem. Use the Fuslogvw.exe utility. Start it from the Visual Studio Command Prompt. Click the Settings button and click the "Log binding failures to disk" radio button. Switch back to VS and start the program and wait for the exception to occur. Back to Fuslogvw, click the Refresh button and double-click the added entry. It will show you the file it found.
One another possibility is to trying to load a .NET 4 assembly with an EXE that asked for CLR version 2. That requires an app.exe.config file that forces CLR 4 to be used.
We're trying to set up a Jenkins (build server) job to build our Office add-in based on VSTO. However, I keep getting a strange error that fails the build process after the DLL is copied to the bin directory of the project:
Error 11 The "FindRibbons" task failed unexpectedly.
System.IO.FileNotFoundException:
Could not load file or assembly 'MyAddIn, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies.
The system cannot find the file specified.
File name: 'MyAddIn, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'
So the problem is that the "FindRibbons" task, triggered by the Office add-in build target, has successfully identified the MyAddIn DLL as being an Office Add-In, but is not able to locate and load it!
Any ideas? I'd love to be able to debug the FindRibbons task directly but hooking into and debugging the compile process seems a little extreme...
Here are some observations:
In our build server's Fusion logs for binding the MyAddIn assembly it looks like it's looking in the folder where MSBuild.exe lives (C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\) and nowhere else.
On my dev machine, there is no Fusion log entry for MyAddIn! But the build process succeeds and Kivo works fine.
On both my dev and build machines I also have Fusion log entries for WhereRefBind!Host=(LocalMachine)!FileName=(PresentationCore.dll) and ExplicitBind!FileName=(MyAddIn.dll) which show the binding succeeding.
This error comes up on the build server whether I use Visual Studio or MSBuild from the command line to build the project.
I've ensured that the .NET/MSBuild/VS2012 versions are identical on both my dev machine and the build server and the error still occurs. The only difference seems to be that the build server is running Windows Server 2012 (since it's Azure, and we can't spin up a Windows 7 image).
This has worked for me every time I upgrade Visual Studio - I don't use ribbons.
This worked for my solution, but use at your own risk:
Open the following file in an XML editor (make a backup first): C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\OfficeTools\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Office.targets (the v10.0 part may be different for you, e.g., it might be v14.0)
Remove the following section:
<FindRibbons AssemblyName="$(AbsolutePathToCustomization)" TargetFramework="$(TargetFrameworkVersion)">
<Output TaskParameter="RibbonTypes" ItemName="RibbonTypesCollection"/>
</FindRibbons>
Replace all occurrences of "#(RibbonTypesCollection)" with the empty string ""
Save the file and restart the visual studio
If you migrated the project from a previous version of Visual Studio, be sure to remove the ExcelLocale1033 and SecurityTransparent attributes from the AssemblyInfo.cs file (as answered by Swati in this other question)
If the project still fails to build, it may be because your .csproj file has some references to msbuild's tasks of previous versions of Visual Studio. I suggest you to create a new empty Excel AddIn project, and uses the msbuild structure of the new project file as base for your project.
I had this problem. It was apparently caused because I changed the "Copy Local" setting on reference "Microsoft.Office.Tools.Common.v4.0.Utilities" from True to False. ISYN. (I sh*t you not)
I had upgraded a project from VS2012 to VS2013 and noticed that that reference was the only one set to "Copy Local = True". So I set it to false, because it was different. This caused the error. Changing it back to True solved it.
I had the same error message and finally found a fix. The problem stemmed from the VSTO project being targeted for .NET 4.0 (it seems this is the minimum for VSTO4), while also referencing an assembly built for .NET 3.5. The real culprit was that I had a class in the VSTO project deriving from an interface defined in the .NET 3.5 assembly that in turn derived from a .NET 3.5 library interface. i.e.,
using System.Xml;
class MyVSTOClass : IMy35AssembyInterface // This caused the error
class MyVSTOClass : IXmlSerializable // This compiled OK
using System.Xml;
interface IMy35AssembyInterface : IXmlSerializable
The fix was to update the .csproj to explicitly reference the older version of System.Xml.dll and System.Data.dll which would otherwise default to 4.0 and conflict with the 3.5 assembly references.
<Reference Include="System.Data, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
<!--<Aliases>Data2</Aliases>-->
<HintPath>C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Data.dll</HintPath>
<SpecificVersion>True</SpecificVersion>
<Private>False</Private>
</Reference>
<Reference Include="System.XML, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
<!--<Aliases>Xml2</Aliases>-->
<HintPath>C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Xml.dll</HintPath>
<SpecificVersion>True</SpecificVersion>
<Private>False</Private>
</Reference>
For those who need to simultaneously reference both the newer and older versions of a DLL, note that it is in theory possible using:
extern alias XmlDll1
using XmlDll1::System.Xml
See http://geekswithblogs.net/narent/archive/2008/11/11/126940.aspx for more info.
This problem can also be caused by adding a reference to an unsigned assembly to a signed/strong named add-in project. In my case I added the RestSharp Nuget package and started receiving this error on build as soon as I referenced RestSharp in code. After some digging I noticed that RestSharp was the only unsigned assembly in the project references. If you have this problem, there are 3 possible solutions:
In the case of RestSharp, I found that there was a signed version available on Nuget - searched for "restsharp signed" and installing that solved the problem.
If you have access to the source code, you can configure Visual Studio to build a signed version of the assembly in the Project Properties page.
If you do not have access to the source code, you can sign the assembly with your own key by following these instructions.
I had the same error and none of the answers from the internet help me fix this problem. The reason why I was getting that error is because I was referencing an assembly of type Console Application. I changed that assembly to be of type ClassLibrary and I did not got that exception any more.
Also I would only get that exception when inheriting from a class that was located on my ConsoleApplication. It took me forever to figure it out.
May be a little late here, but I just resolved this for myself - after following numerous suggestions (via google) all of which did not solve my problem I manually went down the line. Turns out I had compiled a set of libraries with a dependent assembly with a lower version (not the latest). In my main project I also had a reference to this dependency but it was pulled via nuget and was at the latest & greatest version. For some reason VS.NET couldn't figure that out and would completely trip out and drop the error you posted. Once I updated the set of libraries to the latest version of the dependency all worked as normal.
The crazy part is - it worked fine initially and then out of nowhere the issue came about. Hope this helps someone along the way.
After enabling Fusion the output showed that it was looking for the assembly in the msbuild/ folder.
I just encountered this same situation today, futzing around for a bit, restarting VS and then rebooting my machine without any success. Than one warning popped out at me - One of my dependent assemblies was not strong named. Setting that assembly to be strong-named solved the problem.
I had the same issue, and even after reading KKG's answer I could not resolve mine.
It turned out to be much simpler for me, but not less frustrating and time consuming. I was working in a Win8.1 VM which does not ship with .net3.5 by default. My .net4 VSTO4 project was referencing an assembly that requires 3.5 somewhere. The same project compiled find on my other VM which was Server2008 and had 3.5 enabled.
In my case, the cause for this error was the mere existence of a field of a generic value type in the assembly (not kidding), e.g.:
class Foo
{
ImmutableArray<int> foo;
}
Workaround (if the additional indirection is acceptable performance-wise):
Wrap the value type in a reference type. This can be done generically with something like
public sealed class Box<T>
{
public readonly T value;
public Box(T value)
{
this.value = value;
}
}
then foo can be of type Box<ImmutableArray<int>>.
I have experienced this same issue with an add-in for Outlook.
The solution for me was to set Embed Interop Types to True on my reference to Office.dll.
This however caused the add-in to crash during startup with an Access Denied on Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook. I fixed that issue by setting Embed Interop Types to True on all references to Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.dll as well.
This error can be caused by a clash of dependency versions. For example:
YourAddIn
-- OtherLibrary v1.3
-- BaseLibrary v1.0
-- BaseLibrary v2.0
If a newer version of BaseLibrary v2.0 is released and updated in your project, however this version introduce a breaking change in your other dependency OtherLibrary, you will see this exception because OtherLibrary is still trying to find the old methods that doesn't exist in newer assembly.
Update OtherLibrary with the latest packages will resolve this clash of dependency versions.
This can also happen if the Microsoft.Office.Tools.Outlook.v4.0.Utilities reference is set to <Private>False</Private>.
<Reference Include="Microsoft.Office.Tools.Outlook.v4.0.Utilities">
<!-- Required for FindRibbons task -->
<Private>True</Private>
</Reference>
Ok so I am trying to use the Palo DotNet SDK to access the OLAP server.
First I created an empty c# project, added the reference to Jedox.Palo.Dll.
It seems Jedox.Palo.Dll uses two other dll's namely 1. libpalo_en.dll 2. libpalo2.dll
(which are not type libraries themselves so can't be added as a references. See error below for more details on that).
So I read somewhere on SO that I need to add them to the Debug/bin directory of my application, and on doing so still got the error in the title. Then I changed the target framework from 4.0 to 2.0 and viola it worked!
So I then set out to do the same for a ASP.Net Website
I added the reference for the Jedox.Palo.Comm.dll and added the two other files to the bin directory. Image here: http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/6835/paloerror.png
But then I get the error message again. I have done everything I did in the C# application - Add the dll's to the bin dir, change the target framework to 2.0.
Here is the detailed error:
Warning 1 C:\Users\Development\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\WebSites\TestPalo\Default.aspx: ASP.NET runtime error: Could not load file or assembly 'Jedox.Palo.Comm.DLL' or one of its dependencies. The specified module could not be found. C:\Users\Development\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\WebSites\TestPalo\Default.aspx 1 1 C:...\TestPalo\
Here is the error message (pop up) if I try to add libpalo_ng.dll or libpalo2.dll as a reference:
A reference to 'C:\Users\Development\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\WebSites\TestPalo\Bin\libpalo_ng.dll' could not be added. No type libraries were found in the component.
So how can I overcome this. And if you're suggesting Reflector, it doesn't even tell me that Jedox.Palo.Comm.dll uses the other two dll's. So I'm not certain of its efficacy.
And is there like a separate folder where those two dll's need to be put, since this is an asp.net webite, since I feel that if it worked as a C# Application, there is no reason not to work as a web app.
Also should I add any references to those other two dll's int the web.config file?
Thanks in advance!
Solved. Just added the two depended dll to the sysWOW64 folder. Nothing else worked!
When running .net site, enable 32 bit Application in the IIS app pool configuration. Palo requires 32 bit.
Hej All,
I upgraded my solutions of a project from vs2008 to vs2010.
But right now I have a weird problem. I reference a project in multiple solutions (3 solutions)
In 2 of those solutions the referencing goes wrong.
I am able to add the reference (project reference) but when I build I got the warning the referenced project x does not exists. And errors that I have to add an reference.
I already deleted and added the project again, same with the references but no result.
Does anybody have any idea?
Greetz,
Jonathan
I had the a similar problem and the other solutions didn't help. What worked for me was opening the project file in a text editor. There were duplicate references to a library, one as a project reference and one as a dll reference. I deleted both. Then I opened the solution in Visual Studio, and re-added the reference as a project reference. Only one reference got added and I stopped getting the warning.
Make sure your project is not using the ".NET Framework 4 Client Profile" as target framework, this is the most common source of these problems.
You can check this in the project properties under Target Framework.
From MSDN:
If you are targeting the .NET
Framework 4 Client Profile, you cannot
reference an assembly that is not in
the .NET Framework 4 Client Profile.
Instead you must target the .NET
Framework 4. For more information, see
Troubleshooting .NET Framework
Targeting Errors.
I was experiencing the very same issue although I was correctly referencing .NET 3.5 in all the projects migrated from VS 2008 to VS 2010 (all references to System assemblies were using a runtime version v2.0).
Weird however, the error only occured if my solution (and the projects in this solution's subfolders) were located in certain path... I could "solve" the problem by moving the projects or renaming the projects (only the project file, not the output binaries) ?!
Double clicking the reference in the project opened correctly the Object Browser where I could find all the artifacts defined in the referenced project !
I did start to delete everything from the project (classes, resources, references, etc...). At the end, I had only two projects (A referencing B) without any other references and with only one empty class in each. I still had the message "referenced project '..\B\B.csproj' does not exist.". Suddenly, trying to copy the source to another PC and next back into the original path on my machine (kind of black magic to solve the problem), I did get the message "Cannot copy. Resulting file name is too long".
Wierd² !!! I did delete every thing on my PC and did copy back again the sources from the other PC. It passed successfully ! I did recopy again back from the other PC (overwriting now the existing local copy) and again I got the message "Cannot copy. Resulting file name is too long". So the problem occurred only when overwriting existing files.
I found that the error occurred only if the existing file was "readonly". Removing the flag readonly solved this issue. However, this error was the sign of something possibly at the root cause of my initial issue: "referenced project '..\B\B.csproj' does not exist."
So, I decided to check if the project path length was the issue by renaming one of the folder but not changing the total length! The error still occurred (reference not found).
Next (I knwow, you already think I am crazy or stupid. But all those steps were validated by various colleagues), I did copy the solution in a new folder (with a longer path). Surprise, the error did not occurred anymore !!!
But moving the solution back to a folder with the same length (possibly another name) was reintroducing the error (after a "Clean" of the solution otherwise the meta in obj helped to solved the reference).
I was also able to reproduce this by renaming the project file B instead of a folder in the path. A longer or shorter project filename was solving this issue.
The length of the project filepath is "195" :
D:\TFS_Builds\5\XXXX 1.1\Release 1.11\Sources\Release 1.11\Exception Repository\XXXXXX.Framework.ExceptionHandling.Repository.ServiceHost\XXXXXX.Framework.ExceptionHandling.Repository.ServiceHost
Also, as I can be very creative when trying to identify the root cause of a problem, I did create the very same path on C:\ and put the solution in there... Same error occurred.
I never found (until now) the reason of this and have posted a question on MSDN :http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/msbuild/thread/f0eb6aed-5854-4678-9546-09c1a7705e30
Here is what fixed my problem:
I had a refference to a project named "Utilities.Proxy3.5", which would give me a the following warning:
"The referenced project
'..\..\Utilities.Proxy3.5\Utilities.Proxy3.5.csproj' does not exist."
Renaming the project folder and the project files to "Utilities.Proxy35" and re-adding the reference solved the problem. Note: I have only removed a dot between the numbers 3 and 5.
I hope this will help someone.
I had the same issue.
What solved it for me was that i opened each of the reference projects on its own first. VS asks for a permission to fix some of the files. Allow it to do so.
Then open the top project and it will work.
Apparently it was issues with the version of VS that created the original project.
Good luck
Check the lengths of the following:
The path of the referencing project's directory
The relative path to the project it references
If those paths add up to exactly 259 characters, you will experience a bug in the .NET implementation of Path.GetFullPath that will cause VisualStudio 2010 to behave as if the referenced project does not exist.