Related
I'm not sure if anyone else has encountered this but often, when I open this particular solution, I see a whole list of errors (see below).
If I double click one of them, then Visual Studio seems to wake up and the errors relating to that particular cs file disappear. This isn't a critical issue and is more on an irritation than anything else but I wonder, is there perhaps something wrong with my code that's causing this false-positive or is it random Visual Studio behaviour?
I had this problem too.
Deleting bin and obj folders not work.
Cleaning solution not work.
Various platform I need to be as is.
Helped me close solution and delete folder .vs, which is often full of problematic mess. After opening solution all false errors disappeared.
As mentioned in a comment, you can do a Clean and Rebuild. If that does not work for you, you can browse to the solution folder and within each of the project folders delete the bin and obj folders. Then perform a build.
You may also want to look into your Configuration Manager and ensure that all of your projects are set to the same Configuration (Debug/Release) and Platform (Any CPU/x86/etc...) and marked to build for that configuration.
Finally, you may also want to check the Build Order for your solution. Ensure that projects are all built in the proper order.
-- Edit:
On thing brought up in comments that I will add here was to make sure that any library projects in the solution are added as Project References rather than referencing the output DLL directly.
Something that has only become evident in later years, and is only relevant upon reflection on this old question, is that the particular solution that we experience this issue in contains a Website project and NOT a WebApplication project. This became evident when we started to look deeper into these recurring errors and noted that they only ever related to codebehind files and all had to do with the Control Name not existing in the current context.
Amongst the various differences between the two project types, it seems that the lack of designer files for each ASP page may be a contributing factor. The error disappears as soon as you double click it potentially indicating that VS is not able to keep track of the control references until you open the relevant page / codebehind file.
We're moving over to a Web Application as a temporary measure.
Hope this insight helps someone else!
When running a web application project, at seemingly random times a page may fail with a CS0433 error: type exists in multiple DLL's. The DLL's are all generated DLL's residing in the "Temporary ASP.NET Files" directory.
Add the batch="false" attribute to the "compilation" element of the web.config file.
This problem occurs because of the way in which ASP.NET 2.0 uses the application references and the folder structure of the application to compile the application. If the batch property of the element in the web.config file for the application is set to true, ASP.NET 2.0 compiles each folder in the application into a separate assembly.
http://www.sellsbrothers.com/1995
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919284
This might happen if you place .cs files in App_Code and changed their build action to compile in a Web Application Project.
Either have the build action for the .cs files in App_Code as Content or change the name of App_Code to something else. I changed the name since intellisense won't fix .cs files marked as content.
More info at http://vishaljoshi.blogspot.se/2009/07/appcode-folder-doesnt-work-with-web.html
One possible reason for this error is that there are 2 aspx pages which are having the same name in their inherits= in the <#page language=......inherits=> line.
Changing the inherits= name solves the error.
Just in case someone else shares my problem, I got this error when trying to publish a Web Site of a newly branched project, build worked perfectly.
Turns out I had forgotten to remove the checkbox for "Allow precompiled site to be updatable" under publish Settings -> Configure precompile.
As another data point, I just had this problem without any evidence of circular references as described in the links in Ben's answer. Building my web site project would fail with a few of these errors, and setting compilation batch="false" fixed it, but I didn't want to go that route as this is a large-ish production website.
This solution was in a subfolder of my D:\svn folder, which I had mapped to S:. When I opened the solution from S:, these errors occurred, but if I went straight to D:\svn and opened the solution, no errors.
I also noticed that, despite having compilation batch="true" in my web.config, when opening the solution from the mapped S: drive all my .ascx files get compiled into their own assemblies. If I open it from the physical location, the .ascx files get compiled into their respective folders' assemblies (which is how batch="true" is supposed to work).
Strange.
This error was due to conflict between class name of web form and wsdl stub(code behind file .cs) having the same class name i.e.
ASPX page: Dashboard
Class: partiacl class Dashboard
AppCode/APIServices.cs: public partial class Dashboard
Error was reproducible only on publishing the website but build and debug did not inform any error.
In my case deleting all output assemblies from bin folders in all projects in the solution solved the issue. Unfortunately I have no explanation for it.
In my case I had renamed a project, so also the dll had been renamed. When I just copied the new dll but didn't think of deleting the old one from the server, I soon had a bunch of pairs of classes with the same names. Deleting the outdated dll's was doing the trick (of cause).
None of these answers worked for me, however I did fix the problem. Since I was using VS's Publish function to deploy the web application, I selected the option to delete all existing files prior to publish in the Publish Web wizard. This forced a clean copy of the application and everything worked fine from there.
This solution might be helpful if your local debugging copy works fine but published system isn't. Also great if you don't want to take the time to track down individual dlls to delete and don't mind the production files being deleted first.
In my case, the problem was solved when I edited a Designer.cs file that still had the duplicated class name. for some reason, when i renamed the class "logout" to "logout2", in the designer file it was not automatically changed, and was still "logout", and this class name already existed in a precompiled dll in my project (that belongs to a third party web app that I work with and develop around of).
Got this problem when put a part of an aspx page into the separate user control. On my machine everything was fine, on the server got an error.
Renamed the problem class and file.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919284 Method 2: Reorder the folders in the application is writing about possible circular references
None of these solutions worked for me. Both of my conflicting DLLs were in C:\...\AppData\...\Temporary ASP.NET Files\...
The problem was that I had rolled back my source repo to an earlier version - before we moved a type from one project to another project within the same solution.
I tried deleting the newer DLL - which should not have even been there at all in the older codebase - from the "Temporary ASP.NET Files" location identified by msbuild. msbuild just put it back.
I also tried the web.config setting that some here have used successfully, but that did not work either. Although, as I write this, I realize that there were actually two MVC projects within the same solution and both had errors, so the problem may have been that I did not add the setting to both.
I tried rolling my source repo forward and cleaning and rolling back again and cleaning. Nothing.
I tried deleting everything the "Temporary ASP.NET Files" location. msbuild just put it back again.
Finally, I tried rebuilding in Visual Studio. Although the command line output and the "Errors" output both gave the same msbuild "Temporary ASP.NET Files" error, the Intellisense error - when hovering over the conflicted type - actually complained about DLLs in output directories. Apparently "Clean" and "Rebuild" were not doing their jobs. I manually deleted the DLLs in the output directories identified by Intellisense, and the problem was solved.
tl;dr - Make sure you're covering all of your web.configs with the batch setting, and try to leverage Intellisense for further clues.
My problem was linked to a .dll that was getting generated in my project folder.
If you are referencing another file, instead of doing everything you see above, what fixed my problem instantly was just deleting the .dll that was staying inside my /bin directory for my project.
The problem isn't necessarily a web.config fix - it's a circular reference that needs to get resolved. I realized that I cleared the old .dll in my original project file but not in the project that was referencing it.
I don't recommend making the modification to your web.config file because that's just a band-aid fix - not really addressing the actual problem. Do that if you don't feel like fixing the problem, but if you want to avoid future headaches, just remove the .dll from both places.
I had a partial class with the same name in two different projects.
I solved it by only leaving it in one project.
None of this solutions worked for me. Compiling in "Release" mode worked, but when I switched to "Debug" I got umpteen of this error Messages.
I don't understand why, but a simple restart of Visual Studio was my solution.
Sometimes it may help to remove the solution and create it again.
Since this use to happen when converted from VS2005 to vs2010 some references to framework 4.0 (after upgrading ) remains in the solution, even all projects are defined as 3.5.
Normally rebuilding the solution should clear these problems.
I had the same problem when I was compiling the application on a compiling server.
My controller had a simple static code, so I changed my ascx:
<%# Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="controllerName.ascx.cs" Inherits="Controls.controllerName" %>
To
<%# Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" Src="controllerName.ascx.cs" Inherits="Controls.controllerName" %>
Also removed the partial keyword from the codebehind and added a namespace to the codebehind.
This:
using System;
using System.Web.UI;
/// <summary>
/// My controller
/// </summary>
public partial class controllerName: UserControl
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
}
To this:
using System;
using System.Web.UI;
namespace Controles
{
/// <summary>
/// My controller
/// </summary>
public class controllerName : UserControl
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
}
}
And that worked for me.
For me this happened when I had my PrecompiledWeb/Publish location set to the current directory which was where the site's root folder was too.
My Web Site was then seeing the publish folder as part of the project when compiling/building and then finding duplicates in that manner.
i.e. Don't put the published/precompiled version of your site in your site's code folders.
If the DLL's are showing in a temporary folder, you should try cleaning your solution.
Posting my solution:
The issue was related to the "On-Access Scan" of Mcafee Antivirus. Disabling this solved the problem. Somehow, the ASP Temporary folder was not being used properly by ASP when the antivirus was ON.
Hope this helps someone.
App_Code folder is causing the problem , put the class outside the folder (Works fine)
App_Code folder is not designed for Web Application Projects
http://vishaljoshi.blogspot.in/2009/07/appcode-folder-doesnt-work-with-web.html
Go to Add reference and search for both the dll,
Both of the dll would have checked, uncheck one of the dll, as there are references to the same dll with different version ambiguity gets generated.
My solution was to replace CodePage="...." with CodeBehind="..." in the .aspx file. Somehow it was left as CodePage during a migration from previous .NET versions.
This page directive creates another dll file which conflicts with the projects dll file.
I faced with the problem in compile time.
I agree with the batch="true" attributes, error is telling there exist 2 assembly
Solution 1: deleting one of them
Solution2: Configure one of them
Had a similar problem, In my case, I noticed, that cleaning a solution doesn't clear the bin folder in the visual studio. There was old compiled .dll present in the folder that is causing the issue.
Solutions:
Manually delete bin folder and recompile
In case of publish, select delete existing files prior to publish.
This will solve the issue.
You should define an alias for one of your references.
In your project file .csproj add the following item:
<ItemGroup>
<Reference Include="temp1.dll">
<Aliases>MyAssembly</Aliases>
</Reference>
</ItemGroup>
After adding the above ItemGroup, MyAssembly will represent a root namespace that will contain all namespaces in the assembly temp1.dll.
Then you can have access to the type foo, which is located in temp1.dll, as follow:
using MyAssembly.foo;
I have stumbled into an issue that is really annoying.
When I debug my software, everything runs OK, but if I hit a breakpoint and edit the code, when I try to continue running I get an error:
Metadata file 'XYZ' could not be found
After looking around for a while, I found some a similar issues, but they were all regarding a build failure, which is not my case (this happens only after edit-continue).
What I have tried so far:
My code is compiling and running.
I cleaned the solution and restarted VS.
I made sure that the missing file's project is being build for the configuration I am running (in configuration manager).
I manually built the missing file's project.
Some extra info:
It does not matter what I change, still get the same error (the change is not related to the missing file).
This happens also when I pause and continue (not only breakpoints)
I am running the project using a custom configuration (configuration manager...). When I run it using the default Debug configuration the error does not occur.
Any ideas?
Eventually what solved the issue was:
Clean every project individually (Right click> Clean).
Rebuild every project individually (Right click> Rebuild).
Rebuild the startup project.
I guess for some reason, just cleaning the solution had a different effect than specifically cleaning every project individually.
Edit:
As per #maplemale comment, It seems that sometimes removing and re-adding each reference is also required.
Update 2019:
This question got a lot of traffic in the past, but it seems that since VS 2017 was released, it got much less attention.
So another suggestion would be - Update to a newer version of VS (>= 2017) and among other new features this issue will also be solved
As far as I can tell, this happens when the project dependencies gets messed up for whatever reason (whilst all the inter-project references are still intact). For many cases, it is NOT a code issue. And for those who have more than a few projects, going through them one at a time is NOT acceptable.
It's easy to reset project dependencies -
Select all projects and right click unload
Select all projects and right click reload
Rebuild solution
For those who have an issue in their code or some other issue that's causing this problem you'll obviously have to solve that issue first.
One possible reason could be you have upgraded the some of your projects (in the solution) to higher version e.g. from .NET 4.0 to 4.5 This happened in my case when I opened the solution in VS 2013 (originally created using VS 2010 and .NET 4.0). When I opened in VS 2013 my C++ project got updated to .NET 4.5 and I started to see the problem.
Generally this kind of error comes with human mistakes like if we change the namespace in some improper way, or changing folder names from explorer for current project etc, where compiler is unable to detect sometimes.
I came across the same error, to resolve which I tried few steps. Please follow all the steps :
Clean whole Solution
Right Click on every Project in your solution , Go to Properties and make your Default namespace as well as Default assembly name same as in your code (i.e namespace before class name)
Check Folder names for each project by going through the explorer(Where your project solution is). If not matching with your project names, make it similar (Like step 2) to them.
Remove all your references from each project relevant to another of same solution, and add it again.
In Your Project Solution folder, you will find Visual c# Project file. Right click and open with Notepad. In your initial lines you would find for lines for every project like below:
Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "**Client**", "**Client** \ **Client**.csproj", "{4503E259-0E3B-414A-9074-F251684322A5}"
EndProject
Check again Foldernames (I have highlighted in BOLD) and make it similar to what you did in step 2.
Clean the whole solution again
Build The Solution (If doesn't work try building individual after cleaning again)
Make sure all your dependent projects are using the same .Net Framework version. I had the same issue caused by a dependent project using 4.5.1, while all others were using 4.5. Changing the project from 4.5.1 to 4.5 and rebuilding my solution fixed this issue for me.
XYZ couldn't be found because is not built yet....
Right click on the solution and check Project Dependencies, the Project Build Order should also change according to the dependencies that have been set.
The only thing that worked for me was to delete the Solution User Options (.suo) file. Note that, this is a hidden file.
To locate this file, close your Virsual studio and search for .suo from the file explorer within your project.
PS: a new .suo file will be created again when you rebuild your project and hopefully this newly created one wont give you issues.
I hope that helps someone get rid of this anoying error :).
I had this problem for days! I tried all the stuff above, but the problem kept coming back. When this message is shown it can have the meaning of "one or more projects in your solution did not compile cleanly" thus the metadata for the file was never written. But in my case, I didn't see any of the other compiler errors!!! I kept working at trying to compile each solution manually, and only after getting VS2012 to actually reveal some compiler errors I hadn't seen previously, this problem vanished.
I fooled around with build orders, no build orders, referencing debug dlls (which were manually compiled)... NOTHING seemed to work, until I found these errors which did not show up when compiling the entire solution!!!!
Sometimes, it seems, when compiling, that the compiler will exit on some errors... I've seen this in the past where after fixing issues, subsequent compiles show NEW errors. I don't know why it happens and it's somewhat rare for me to have these issues. However, when you do have them like this, it's a real pain in trying to find out what's going on. Good Luck!
Well, my answer is not just the summary of all the solutions, but it offers more than that.
Section (1):
In general solutions:
I had 4 errors of this kind (‘metadata file could not be found’) along with 1 error saying 'Source File Could Not Be Opened (‘Unspecified error ‘)'.
I tried to get rid of ‘metadata file could not be found’ error. For that, I read many posts, blogs etc and found these solutions may be effective (summarizing them over here):
Restart VS and try building again.
Go to 'Solution Explorer'. Right click on Solution. Go to Properties. Go to 'Configuration Manager'. Check if the checkboxes under 'Build' are checked or not. If any or all of them are unchecked, then check them and try building again.
If the above solution(s) do not work, then follow sequence mentioned in step 2 above, and even if all the checkboxes are checked, uncheck them, check again and try to build again.
Build Order and Project Dependencies:
Go to 'Solution Explorer'. Right click on Solution. Go to 'Project Dependencies...'. You will see 2 tabs: 'Dependencies' and 'Build Order'. This build order is the one in which solution builds. Check the project dependencies and the build order to verify if some project (say 'project1') which is dependent on other (say 'project2') is trying to build before that one (project2). This might be the cause for the error.
Check the path of the missing .dll:
Check the path of the missing .dll. If the path contains space or any other invalid path character, remove it and try building again.
If this is the cause, then adjust the build order.
Are you using a database code generation tool like SQLMETAL in your project?
If so, you may be facing a pluralized to unpluralized transition issue.
In my case, I have noted that some old pluralized (*) table names (upon which SQLMETAL adds, by default, an "s" letter at the end) table references to classes generated by SQLMETAL.
Since, I have recently disabled Pluralization of names, after regerating some database related classes, some of them lost their "s" prefix. Therefore, all references to affected table classes became invalid. For this reason, I have several compilation errors like the following:
'xxxx' does not contain a definition for 'TableNames' and no extension method 'TableNames' accepting a first argument of type 'yyyy' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
As you know, I takes only on error to prevent an assembly from compiling. And that is the missing assemply is linkable to dependent assemblies, causing the original "Metadata file 'XYZ' could not be found"
After fixing affected class tables references manually to their current names (unpluralized), I was finnaly able to get my project back to life!
(*) If option Visual Studio > Tools menu > Options > Database Tools > O/R Designer > Pluralization of names is enabled, some SQLMETALl code generator will add an "s" letter at the end of some generated table classes, although table has no "s" suffix on target database. For further information, please refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386987(v=vs.110).aspx
Hope it helps!
I had this error come up. I followed all of the solutions here but nothing worked. I was using Visual Studio 2013 Professional. I couldn't get the individual project rebuilds to work and I finally figured out there was a circular dependency in my references. Visual Studio does a pretty good job normally of warning you if you are adding a reference to something that references back, but for some reason it didn't in this instance. I added a reference to a project that referenced the project I was working on - and it accepted it. VS bug perhaps?
My 5 cents.
This problem started after a solution wide clean.
I managed to get the problem to go away by setting the Active Solution configuration in: Build -> Configuration manager to release. Then build and set it back to debug again. The build succeeded after that.
Close VS, locate and remove the 'packages' folder from outside of visual studio. Restart VS and build -> all dependencies are reinstalled
Visual Studio 2019 Community 16.3.10
I had similar issue with Release build. Debug build was compiling without any issues.
Turns out that the problem was caused by OneDrive. Most likely one could experience similar issues with any backed-up drive or cloud service.
I cleaned everything as per Avi Turner's great answer.
In addition, I manually deleted the \obj\Release -folder from my OneDrive folder and also logged to OneDrive with a browser and deleted the folder there also to prevent OneDrive from loading the cloud version back when compiling.
After that rebuilt and everything worked as should.
this happens because of the difference of names in the folder name and namespace name. If u create a namespace in a certain name , and later you rename it the namespace will have the old name itself. And the compilation will take the old path to find the .dll and .exe file . To avoid this open the .csproj file of each namespace with a text file , and find the old path in the file.
remove this, clean and rebuild the solution. This worked for me. I spent an entire day working on this problem.
I had this and managed to fix it using this SO answer:
Metadata file '.dll' could not be found
I had to uncheck all of the boxes, click Apply, reenable all of the checkboxes and then click apply again, but it fixed the problem.
I just ran into this issue and after an hour of screwing around realized I had added an aspx file to my product that had the same name as one of my Linq-To-Sql classes.
Class and Page where "Queue".
Changed the page to QueueMgr.aspx and everything built just fine.
For a new build, it could be that some dependencies aren't installed. For me it was Crystal Reports.
It happens when one project dll is failing and that is referenced by number of projects. So first fix it and then Build individuals.
I ve had this problem and it has started after importing our solution to TFS as a new project.I came across this topic and found a quick solution with some inspiration from your answers.
All i needed to do is to rebuild the project thats supposedly lost its metadata file and voila , problem solved.
There's also one another silly reason which you should check with patience... as it occurred to me after wasting 4hours searching for answers:
The story to me was that I accidentally changed a small line of code among thousands of c# class files and then trying to rebuild the solution. As you could imagine, I ended up with 40+ meta data file missing errors and with 1 compilation error among them -- which I didn't check carefully, purely thinking all errors were the same!
after 4 hours searching and then accidentally double checking my error list, I found that silly code error, fixed it, compiled, and then error disappeared.
Not a good answer to your problem, but do hope my case wasn't same to yours.
I had the same problem. In my case I had by mistake I had set all the projects apart from the project with the main method as console application.
To resolve I went to every project other than the one with main function and right click> properites > output type > class library
it was happened to me because I've a strange clash in the namespaces:
I had
AssemblyA
with namespace
AssemblyA.ParentNamespace
witch defines ClassA
and in the same assembly another namespace with name
AssemblyA.ParentNamespace.ChildNamespace
witch defines a different ClassA (but with the same name)
I had then in AssemblyA.ParentNamespace IInterfaceB witch had a method that in the beginning returns IEnumerable and a ClassB witch implements IInterfaceB
I had later modified the method in ClassB to return IEnumerable but I've forgot to update the IInterfaceB definition, so the method there was still returning IEnumerable
the fun fact was that the solution still complile if I did a rebuild all, but the tests witch refers AssemblyA didsn't work and returns the "Metadata file could not be found"error.
updating InterfaceB to correctly return IEnumerable as its implementor ClassB did solved the problem, unfortunately the error message was vague and also the fact that the compilation worked makes me suppose that maybe there is something to fix in the compiler
A coworker was running into this problem and the cause was eluding us. Eventually we realized that the project directory (and therefore the path to the NuGet packages) contained %20 (thanks, some Git gui tool which shall not be named) and the error messages showed that the compiler was looking for an very similar-looking path but one which had to %20, rather a space. Apparently something in the build system somewhere performs HTML-decoding on local filesystem paths.
Renamed the working copy directory and everything started working.
I had this issue too.
It started after I did a little folder tidying in my project.
I then tried to compile and got many duplicate class errors. (despite them not being duplicated. I think the linking was just out of wack)
Upon checking these, the errors would all disappear leaving only the "Metadata file ...debug\application.exe could not be found" error.
I solved this by looking in the build output window to find which classes were duplicated.
I would then right click the class name and "go to definition".
there will be two definitions to select from, open them both, the second definition will seem to open the same file again, however the second one will identify as the error source(red underline).
Delete all the code out of the file and save(This will not effect your actual file).
This should now compile correctly.
Ensure that there are no spaces in the path to your project...
I am using Windows 10 with Visual Studio Community 2019 and I was cloning a multi project solution as it was from a GIT repo. I was having this error with all other dependencies in the solution along with a E_POINTER error. Its path, inherited from GIT, had spaces like C:/repos/MY PROJECT NAME/ ...
I deleted it, cloned it again and make sure that its path contained no spaces like C:/repos/MY_PROJECT_NAME/ ...
That fixed my problem.
I had same issue too.
In my case, I recently add an internal class to somewhere in project. One of the dependencies in solution has same class name and both of them are added correctly to references.
I changed my last activity and rebuild, it works.
Be sure that your compiler messages are valid. In my case I catch reference error from there, not listed as an error in Error List.
I am experiencing an error that I am unable to resolve for some time now. I was wondering if someone can help identify the cause of this error? I am completely new to asp / asax. After some research, I think that the error I am getting is due to the web application trying to use outdated code. I was thinking to rebuild the c# file using Visual Studio and/or the entire project. However, I am completely new to C# and asp, and was wondering can give me some suggestions if this may fix the problem and/or if there is an possible alternate solution.
Error message
Parser Error Message: Could not load type 'Inventory1.Global'.
Source Error: <%# Application Codebehind="Global.asax.cs" Inherits="Inventory1.Global" %>
Entire Global.asax contents:
<%# Application Codebehind="Global.asax.cs" Inherits="Inventory1.Global" %>
Try replacing CodeBehind with CodeFile
Could not load type
means that a type could not be loaded. (In this case, "type" refers to Inventory1.Global). Types are located in compiled DLLs. So, either the DLL isn't available, is out of date, or doesn't contain a public type with the given name.
Some possible causes are:
You have no type declared with the given name. For your example, you should have the following:
namespace Inventory1 {
public class Global {
...
}
}
Note: avoid names like Inventory1. They imply that there is an Inventory2, Inventory3, etc., which is bad practice as they're abmiguous and not very descriptive. Also, Global is pretty vague, and may introduce confusion with the global namespace.
Make sure your cases match (Inventory1, not INVENTORY1.)
You haven't compiled the project. In VS, rebuild the solution.
The assembly that declares the class has a compilation error, so the relevant DLL is either missing or out of date. Make sure you've resolved all errors.
The class is not marked as public.
If I had to guess, I'd put my money on a compilation error. Unlike PHP and other interpreted languages, C# have to be successfully compiled before they can be used.
I had this error , just needed to rebuild the project
I faced this issue and i got the solution from here and i would like to share it.
SOLUTION
Empty the bin folder. Build all the dependent class libraries and refer them in the main project and build the complete solution.
I did this and it worked like a charm for me !!
After scouring around for what could have caused this I found a few things that I needed to do to get my project running...
(Note: You may not need to do all of these - it is a case-by-case thing)
If you did any changes from IIS Express to Local IIS you may need to change the build configuration from bin/debug to bin. (Right click on solution >> Properties >> Build >> Output)
If you have a URL rewrite then you will need to install URL rewrite on your Local IIS.
Navigate to your applicationhosts.config file (usually it's some place like C:\Users\username\Documents\IISExpress\config) and rename the file to applicationhostsOLD.config.
Clean and rebuild your project. You may need to go manually empty out the bin.
Now you should be good to go.
Since it was only happening with IISexpress, changing output from bin\Debug\ to bin\ solved it for me. Changing tag CodeBehind to CodeFile only created even more problems.
This happened with me on my local machine. The issue was incorrect IISExpres config.
If you are getting this issue on your local environment (Visual Studio debug runs), check the IIS Express config file. Make sure your local site/application path is pointing to the correct location.
The configuration file is called applicationhost.config. It's stored here:
My Documents > IIS Express > config . Usually (not always) one of these paths will work:
%userprofile%\documents\iisexpress\config\applicationhost.config
%userprofile%\my documents\iisexpress\config\applicationhost.config
It can't find the necessary file in dll assembly.
Rebuild the project, Rebuild the solution and then try it again.
I added a new build profile and that defaulted to output of
/bin/[new profile name] and when i was running debugger it was trying to look to just /bin
It's likely that you renamed something. Check the Global.asax.cs file for the class declaration and make sure that the namespace and class name match exactly what's in the asax file. This includes case! Can you copy/paste the namespace and class declaration of the .cs file into a post here so that we can compare?
Parser Error Message: Could not load type __
After doing everything suggested in the comments above, with no luck, refreshing (uploading) the contents of /bin to the server worked. The files uploaded to bin are the: dll, pdb and xml. Don't know which one did it.
The problem I had here was induced by renaming a file (_.aspx) in Solution Explorer.
Rebuilding/re-publishing my project/solution to the server did nothing to help me, and I doubt that will help that many out of this predicament. For me, I did a few things to troubleshoot this that eventually got me out of this "hole".
I had been trying to use a binding on the web site, but this wasn't working. I tried calling the site with http://localhost/Report.aspx (this was my homepage, which I opted to not call Default.aspx - I was going to update the "Default Documents" section with the name later) when I got the Parser Error the OP saw. So I tried some things:
I stopped the old project's website and built another, simple web project, that had "hello" and a label on the page and nothing else. I had a line in the Page_Load to populate the label's Text property with "world!", just to make sure that part was working. I created a new website on port 80 and transferred the published contents of my site to the server. So even though I had .NET 4.5 installed on the server (and had ran the aspnet_regiis -i command from the 4.0 directory) and the App Pool in IIS that I was using for this new project was set to 4.0, the browser complained about the web.config having a targetFramework=4.5.2 in it, which is Visual Studio 2015's default framework. So I installed .NET 4.6 (NDP46-KB3045557-x86-x64-AllOS-ENU.exe), restarted the server, and then my simple site worked. So then I deleted this site - all I wanted to do was prove my installation steps were accurate and the server could run a site.
So then I went back to my original project/site - I deleted and re-created the web site. I put the Application Pool to the one I had originally created for this, which I ensured was running .NET 4.0. Once I did this, I navigated to my site and everything worked when using http://localhost/Report.aspx. So it seems to me what causes this is what version of the .NET Framework you are using.
I tried all the solutions listed above and none of them worked. I finally created a new web page (webform) and copy blocked all the code (cs and aspx files) into it from the old one, deleted the old cs and aspx file, recompiled, and now I'm back in business. I know it makes no sense. It should not have mattered, but it worked.
Please try to open your project as Project/Solution, most probably it will resolve the error. This type of error Could not load type.... occurs when we try to open project as website.
I have tried to open my project as solution and it resolved my problem.
Please check namespace and class name at all places, In one case, One team member changed namespace and I was using old namespace in .aspx file. It was causing issue. I updated namespace and it got working.
I was fixing my namespaces in our Base Project, and I started seeing this error on another project that references it after that. I had to remove the reference to the Base Project and re-add it and then it started working again.
I just got this error today. It turns out that it was because I reverted by mistake the project file to an older version that didn't include the page anymore.
I had the same issue after renaming an aspx page Visual studio renamed it but dropped the namespace. Make sure the Inherits property contains the fully Qualified name including the namespace.
If you just added the new aspx File, rebuild the project it is located in. The problem comes from your Code Behind file that isn't compiled at the moment, therefore you want to access a newer page that doesn't exist in your current compiled project dll
I had this problem on the remote server, but not on my local server. After trying everything and nothing working, I finally resolved it. My domain name was pointing to a directory under another domain. I had originally built the website independently in Visual Studio as its own project. No matter what I did, it wasn't working anymore. So I moved it to a folder inside of the project for the main domain name and uploaded it as part of the main project.
For example, I have say domain name AAA.com with a website of its own. And then I also have BBB.com that points to a directory under AAA.com's main directory. Originally I had separate VS projects for AAA.com and BBB.com, but that wasn't working anymore. So I had to move all of BBB.com's files to the AAA.com project and set it up exactly like it appears on the remote server. For some reason, that worked.
Try This It will Definitely work :-
Parse Error:
May be you Class name is not matched with the webform name
Several years before I started working at this job another developer who is no longer here wrote an application in classic ASP using HTML, vbscript and javascript. This is fine but the problem is that 2 pages were written in C# with an HTML file and a code behind file. There was no solution files for these two pages. They may have been originally created in Visual Studio but they don't exist in it now.
That is important because there is a lot of things that Visual Studio just does for you without even thinking.
My problem is that in these two C# pages I need to get them to reference a DLL. This is a simple task when using Visual Studio. You just add a reference to the project and life is good. But outside of VS nothing seems to work.
I tried putting the dll in the same folder as the pages and then I tried the following:
Using myDLL;
myDLL dll = new myDLL();
myDLL dll = myDLL();
I found some code online that said to create an internal static class and use [DLLImport()] but that didn't work either. It couldn't find the dll or the Entry Point for the dll. I am currently researching how to create an entry point, just in case this is the method to make everything work.
Outside of having to rewrite these pages in vbscript (which I don't have the time to do) I am at a loss.
Has anyone ran into this problem before? Is there something that I can put in the web.Config? Or is this just impossible and I am hosed.
BTW this is all running under the 2.0 .net framework.
If you drop the DLL you want the code to reference into the bin folder of the website, then open the web.config and locate the following section configuration -> system.web -> compilation -> assemblies.
You need to add the display name of the assembly to that list - so that the compiler will reference that assembly during it's late-bound build process.
Now you should be able to use the stuff that's in it on those pages.
If you don't the know the display name of the assembly (typically yourassembly, version=*.*.*.*, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null for culture-invariant, non-strong-named assemblies) you can open it in a tool like ILSpy (there are others, it's just become my favourite) and it tells you when you select it in it's UI:
sorry for the poor highlighting - jerky hand following far too much coffee
If all the code in that assembly is in a single namespace, also, you can also add a default using to all the .cs or .aspx code in the project by adding that namespace to configuration -> system.web -> pages -> namespaces - making it simpler to use that code in the pages.
I created a VS Solution/Project for my app. I compiled and published it to the web server. When I published it I had it copy all project files.
I ran it and it crashed because it could not find my dll.
I tried adding the lines that Andras mentioned above and it seemed like it was getting me closer but it only changed the errors I was getting.
Then I went into IIS on the web server. I expanded the folder listing under Web Site. I right clicked on the folder that contained my app and made that folder into an application folder.
After I did that everything just worked. So then I thought I would see what happened if I backed out all of the additional code I added to my C# app and the Web.Config file. It still worked. All I needed to do was to make the folder an application folder in IIS and put a Using statement in my C# app and life is wonderful again.
Thanks for all the comments and suggestion. Andras thanks for the link to ILSpy. That is a cool little tool.
Take care,
Robert
I agree with Jon, it sounds like you should try creating a new project for these files. It's always better to leave code better off than you found it. If a new project is not an option for some reason, you should indicate this in your question.