I'm running WCSF Feb 2008 along with Enterprise Library 3.1 and noticed that randomly I get the "fun"
Could not load file or assembly Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common, Version=3.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, Public ... The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference.
Usually this wouldn't be worth mentioning on stackoverflow, but the strange thing is that the first time I fire this up it breaks, but if I close it down and simply hit F11 again - it works .... strange. Does anyone know why this might break sometimes, but not others?
The problem was related to my version of the data access DLL I was adding. I found that if I went to the following:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Web Client
Software Factory February
2008\Microsoft Practices Library
and imported this specific data access DLL instead of the one I compiled myself from the Enterprise Library 3.1 installer, everything worked great.
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I'm to use nunit-console to run all of the tests in my solution.
I did this:
c:\some\path>nunit-console-x86.exe MySolution.sln
NUnit-Console version 2.6.2.12296
Copyright (C) 2002-2012 Charlie Poole.
Copyright (C) 2002-2004 James W. Newkirk, Michael C. Two, Alexei A. Vorontsov.
Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Philip Craig.
All Rights Reserved.
Runtime Environment -
OS Version: Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1
CLR Version: 2.0.50727.5466 ( Net 3.5 )
ProcessModel: Default DomainUsage: Default
Execution Runtime: net-3.5
Could not load file or assembly 'MyNamespace.Administration, Version=0.0.0.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
So, I decided to try nunit-x86.exe I did File > Open Project > MySolution.sln and got this:
---------------------------
NUnit
---------------------------
Test load failed!
System.IO.FileNotFoundException : Could not load file or assembly
'MyNamespace.Administration, Version=0.0.0.1, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot
find the file specified.
For further information, use the Exception Details menu item.
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------
The exception can be found here
What is happening and how do I fix it? (without having to maintain a MySolution.nunit file)
More information
MyNamespace.Administration is not even one of the dlls that contains tests, which means that nunit fails trying to load it to look for tests to run. Knowing this I edited the file created by nunit-x86.exe (MySolution.nunit) and removed all dlls that did not have tests. Sure enough, the tests work (in both gui and console). This is not acceptable for me because it would mean that I have to keep yet another configuration file. Nunit supporting .sln files was supposed to avoid this.
My tests run fine using TestDriven.Net (but I really need to run them using nunit-console)
I have looked at this answer but I cannot make sense of what the fusion log viewer says. Would posting that log help? Assembly binding Log Viewer, lists 3 files being created:
nunit-agent-x86.exe, this one seems to be trying to find MyNamespace.Administration.dll/EXE inside the nunit directories
Tests_24398275 x2 - one looking for nunit.core in my project folders and another looking for unit.core.interfaces inside my project folders. I would pay little attention to these two since they also appear in my manually edited .nunit project).
(per andreister comment) The problem seems to be with the project/assembly itself and not the creation method. If I create a .nunit project and try to add MyNamespace.Administration to it (using 'Add Assembly...' or 'Add VS project...') it fails.
Calling nunit-console-x86 somepath/bin/Debug/MyNamespace.Administration.dll directly works.
Reposting my reply on nunit-discuss:
The NUnit feature of loading VS solutions is really fairly limited and intended to work with simple projects or as a quick way to create an NUnit project file - i.e. load the solution and save as an NUnit project, then edit the xml file that is created. Since the solution file format doesn't indicate which files are tests, NUnit attempts to load each project to check if it contains any tests. (This is the same thing that Visual Studio 2012 and later does when using the test explorer window, btw.)
As you suggest, I think the particular assembly fails to load because of having a dependency that is one level up. When loading either a VS solution file or an NUnit project file, NUnit sets the application base to the directory containing the solution or project. That's why an NUnit project file one level up works.
The designers' intent in this sort of situation is that you would create an NUnit project file. I recognize that this is somewhat inconvenient, since it gives you another configuration file to maintain. I'm open to suggestions regarding the use of globs either on the command line or within the project file. Any such changes would probably go into the next major upgrade, NUnit 3.0.
Unfortunately, even after posting on nunit-discuss group I was unable to find a proper solution for this problem.
nunit-discuss group confirmed that my tests are failing because of having a dependency that is one level up.
I did however found an acceptable work-around.
Since calling the .dlls directly didn't have the same issues.
I could do this with globs, but I'm on windows... but I have git bash installed.
Taking advantage of my somewhat rigid project structure and naming convention I managed to do this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\bash.exe" -c 'nunit-console-x86.exe //framework=net-4.5 //xml:nunitresults.xml MysolutionFolder/Tests/*/bin/Debug/*.Tests.dll'
Please note that I took advantage of my naming convention. This is very important to do in order to reduce the number of arguments.
When I did nunit-console-x86 MysolutionFolder/*/*/bin/Debug/*.dll instead of MysolutionFolder/Tests/*/bin/Debug/*.Tests.dll I got an error from nunit-console-x86 saying Bad file number.
Besides, it's faster if I just provide the right files.
If you have a more recent version of bash (4.0+, I think) you can instead use the following command (note the use of **):
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\bash.exe" -c 'nunit-console-x86.exe //framework=net-4.5 //xml:nunitresults.xml MysolutionFolder/**/bin/Debug/*.Tests.dll'
Which is shorter and more permissive on the project structure.
I've got a project that uses Autofac, and the WebAPI integration
We run FxCop over our solution, and on opening autofac, I get the following:
The following indirectly-referenced assembly could not be found. This
assembly is not required for analysis, however, without it, analysis
results could be incomplete. This assemble was referenced by
Autofac.dll
System.Core, Version=2.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e, Retargetable=Yes
This causes the following error on our CI server:
FxCop return code (516): PROJECT_LOAD_ERROR ASSEMBLY_REFERENCES_ERROR
Is there a way to tell FxCop to ignore this?
Had the same issue with AutoMapper 3.1.0 on our project. The real problem is an old version of FxCop. The last official release was FxCop 10.0, but new versions of FxCop have been bundled with Visual Studio since 2012.
I just replaced the FxCop 10.0 with the version that can be found in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Team Tools\Static Analysis Tools\FxCop
or
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Team Tools\Static Analysis Tools\FxCop
and the problem was solved.
This is a common FxCop thing when running with Portable Class Libraries. It's not Autofac; you just happen to see it because Autofac is the only PCL you're using. In my experience, this error doesn't seem to happen if you're building on a Windows 8 machine, but on Windows 7 or Server 2008R2 I see this a lot.
It's not a bug, and no, you won't find 2.0.5.0 on your machine. That version is actually for Silverlight and runtime .NET "stuff" handles redirection to the right assembly version. Unfortunately, FxCop is less cooperative.
I see the same thing in my build and solved it using the suggestions from questions like this: How to fix FxCop error code 512?
You must add a reference to the assembly's directory in the FxCop project file. For instance:
<Targets>
<AssemblyReferenceDirectories>
<Directory>C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure/v4.0_1.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35/</Directory>
<Directory>C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Web.Mvc/v4.0_3.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35/</Directory>
</AssemblyReferenceDirectories>
Workaround for this issue is to copy the missing System.Core.dll to the project output directory. I made this as a postbuild event to copy System.Core.dll from a shared folder to project\bin directory.
You can get the copy of System.Core.dll from the Silverlight SDK 2 installation.
Now fxcop runs successfully without any issues. Note that I was using Fxcop integrator for Visual Studio 2010.
I am stuck on this exception already for two days.
I am using MS CRM 2011, and got this exception when I try to register CRM custom worklow activity assembly
1. through pluginregistrator tool,
2. or when I deploy the plugin though package project in Visual Studio and after it run the the workflow, and it stops with waiting status, in the details page giving this expcetion. Here is the detailed exception:
Workflow paused due to error: Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Xrm.Client, Version=5.0.9688.1154, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
at ArmenianSoftware.Crm.Spayka.ArmsoftIntegration.Workflows.CreateWorksByPlan.Execute(CodeActivityContext executionContext)
at System.Activities.CodeActivity.InternalExecute(ActivityInstance instance, ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager)
at System.Activities.Runtime.ActivityExecutor.ExecuteActivityWorkItem.ExecuteBody(ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager, Location resultLocation)
I am registering assembly on the file system, I have loaded all needed assemblies in the folder %system root%\C$\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics CRM\Server\bin\assembly. This workflow worked some time, but after I don't know what, next time I deployed the assembly, I got this exception when executing the workflow. This is already third time I am coming across this problem, and spoiling several hours trying to do different things (IIS reset, Async Service restarts, reloading all the assemblies again and redeploying), and after several hours, in a mysterious way, the workflow starts to work. After this works some time, and after some redeployment crashes again. And I can't determine after exactly what steps I solve the problem, and so I spend always several hours on finding out the exception source but to no purpose.
I have looked through some threads in the web but none of them was my case (here are they thread1 , thread2 , thread3)
Have anybody come across this problem? What is the reason of this exception??
Thanks in advance!
I have found the problem in my case!
First thing I have noticed was that the in the Exception the required version of the Microsoft.Xrm.Client assembly was 5.0.9688.1154, but in my project I have the reference to the assembly of version 5.0.9689.1985.
And the next thing was the open ildasm tool, and look what referenced does it have, I opened my custom workflow assembly and I've found that I have two references to Microsoft.Xrm.Client,
first of version 5.0.9688.1154, and the second: 5.0.9689.1985
And a question arose "If I have referenced a assembly the version of wich is 5.0.9689.1985, why there is another version of this assembly? ". And the answer was, definitely, that I had another referenced assembly, which referenced Microsoft.Xrm.Client assembly with version 5.0.9688.1154. I have looked through the assemblies I have reference to in my project. And GOTCHA! In my project I have updated the SDK asseblies to a newer version, but I also had the generated CRM organization Proxy classes assembly, which references Microsoft.Xrm.Client, and I haven't updated this reference to a newer version of CRM SDK. So my custom workflow assembly also needed this version. I changed the references of Proxy dll to newer version, and everything went OK!
If you are reading this post, and you don't have proxy assembly, check your other assemblies, if they all reference the same version of the CRM SDK, if not correct them!
Regards
Gagik Kyurkchyan
I'm trying to mole System.ServiceModel v4 in VS 2010 SP1 with Moles 0.94.51023.0 and I keep getting the following errror:
The type or namespace name 'IHttpCookieContainerManager' does not exist in the namespace 'ssm::System.ServiceModel.Channels' (are you missing an assembly reference?) [my-test-project.Test\obj\Debug\Moles\ssm\m.g.csproj] my-test-project.Test\m.g.cs 293022 43
This interface appears to have been removed from System.ServiceModel.dll in .NET 4.0 as I can only find it in System.ServiceModel.dll v2.0.5.0 (Silverlight) when I search in the Object Browser.
I'm able to reproduce this via the cmdline using moles.exe and I've tried altering the moles file to only generate type names I specify but it doesn't appear to make any difference. This was working fine prior to my upgrade to VS2010 SP1 so I suspect it's a bug, but any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Nick
I debugged this on my own as well and found that the root cause appears to be that VS2010 SP1 (and the related GDR KB update for .NET 4) update one set of DLLs but not another:
The System.ServiceModel.dll in %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Referenced Assemblies\ doesn’t match the one in the .NET v4 install at %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319...
Post VS 2010 SP1 update:
%Program Files(x86)%\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.0\System.ServiceModel.dll -> File version 4.0.30319.1
%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\System.ServiceModel.dll -> File version 4.0.30319.225
Comparing these two dlls in the Object Browser in VS as well as in Reflector yields the result that the IHttpCookieContainerManager interface has been removed in the newer file. So I suspect that this is a combination of .NET probing finding the newer DLL and Moles reflecting over the older one when doing mole/stub generation. I was able to manually generate a Moles dll for the newer DLL by running the Moles exe manually with no reference paths of any kind as opposed to the MSBuild target that adds a bunch of ref paths during a build.
I don't know why that happens, but I had the same issue, and I resolved it by using Moles type filters, and only including the ones I really need (which has the nice side-effect of speeding up compilation quite a lot!!). This is an example .moles file I'm using:
<Moles xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/moles/2010/">
<Assembly Name="System.ServiceModel"/>
<StubGeneration>
<Types>
<Clear/>
<Add Namespace="System.ServiceModel.Description!"/>
</Types>
</StubGeneration>
</Moles>
It looks like it was a conflict between the System and System.ServiceModel assemblies that Moles was using for compilation.
I had recently installed the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.
After uninstalling this and re-installing 4.0 everything worked.
Well, in case anyone is working with legacy code and happens to be cornered into using Microsoft Moles, I've done extensive digging on this topic and hope to save some from the anger and frustration I encountered.
I tried using the accepted answer's suggestion, which meant going to the Moles directory (in C:\Program Files..) and running the command line utility (moles.exe) as Administrator. There a lot of options, one of which allows you to include referenced assemblies (as suggested above).
However, even when trying to run the utility without referenced assemblies, the utility ultimately calls the C# compiler (csc.exe) with pre-defined referenced assembly paths, which is where I conclude that the confusion between .NET Framework versions occurs. I couldn't get it not to include these assembly paths.
My specific scenario was that I was trying to Mole a custom assembly, however because, apparently, I had .NET 4.5 installed on this machine, it was complaining upon compilation about System.Collections.Generics IReadOnlyCollection, IReadOnlyDictionary, and I think one other.
Solution: The only solution I got to work was to use Mole filters, which I read about on other posts and on the Microsoft Moles website (there is a special link for .NET 4.5 troubleshooting on the main page). In Visual Studio, I simply added the Moles assembly to my unit test project for my referenced custom assembly via right click in Solution Explorer. I then tried to build. For each error I received, I noted the offending classes and excluded them from being Shimmed or Stubbed by adding the following to the moles file:
<Moles xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/moles/2010/">
<Assembly Name = "MyCustomAssembly" />
<StubGeneration>
<Types>
<Remove TypeName="ClassThatUsesIReadOnlyCollectionEtc" />
</Types>
</StubGeneration>
<MoleGeneration>
<Types>
<Remove TypeName="ClassThatUsesIReadOnlyCollectionEtc" />
</Types>
</MoleGeneration>
</Moles>
Now clearly that's not going to work if you need the classes that you're excluding from mole/stub generation, however for my case it worked fine because the offending classes were not important and I wouldn't be needing to Stub or Shim anything in those classes.
I'm trying to publish a web site.
The publication works perfectly, but when I try to access the address it returns me the following error:
Parser Error Message: Could not load
file or assembly
'Microsoft.Web.Helpers' or one of its
dependencies. This assembly is built
by a runtime newer than the currently
loaded runtime and cannot be loaded.
Source Error:
Line 293:
Line 294:
Line 295: Line 296:
Line
297:
Source File:
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Config\web.config
Line: 295
Assembly Load Trace: The following
information can be helpful to
determine why the assembly
'Microsoft.Web.Helpers' could not be
loaded.
WRN: Assembly binding logging is
turned OFF. To enable assembly bind
failure logging, set the registry
value
[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog]
(DWORD) to 1. Note: There is some
performance penalty associated with
assembly bind failure logging. To turn
this feature off, remove the registry
value
[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog].
This does not happen when I'm running on the local site.
The application was developed and Sql Server WebMatrix Compac 4
If you read the error message it says "Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Web.Helpers' or one of its dependencies. This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded." If you then look at the version of the ASP.NET that this site is attempting to run under, it is ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.4209.
Web Pages and the Web Helpers library need Version 4.0. Make sure the site targets the correct version of ASP.NET.
For missing assemblies a simple solution is to just bundle them with your project.
Go to your project -> references -> find this microsoft web helpers ref -> open the properties panel and set Copy Local to True
Edit: Also try setting assembly binding logging.
I suspect that your web.config is fine and that there is an assembly missing from your deployment.
You probably have to include microsoft.web.helpers in your deployment package or simply copy it to the bin folder.
You might find that there are other assemblies missing but you should be able to pick them off one by one.
There is a previous question Hosting WebMatrix Page
that lists all of the dlls you have to deploy and also suggests using Webdeploy