Build Fails for VS 2008 whenever i am using Framework 2.0 Code

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0.

You can look in the Output window. If that doesn't provide enough detail,

you can change the level of detail with Tools->Options->Projects and

Solutions->Build and Run: MSBuild project build output verbosity.

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Have you ever had Visual Studio tell you your web application publish failed, but never gives you a reason why? You're not alone. I've been putting off looking into this issue on a project and just found a way to get my answer right away. Visual Studio 2008's Publish Failed message.

Here's what you should do inside of Visual Studio to find out why your publish failed.

1. Click the Tools menu > then Options to bring up the Options dialog.

2. Expand 'Projects and Solutions' on the left and click General

3. On General, click 'Show Output window when build starts'

4. Now click on 'Build and Run' in the left tree

5. Next select a value from the 'MSBuild project build output verbosity' drop down menu

6. OK your way back to the main Visual Studio window

7. The next time you Build or Publish your project, you should see the Output panel pop up. If your publish is still failing, the answer will live inside the Output panel

2.

Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > General

Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > Build and Run

Visual Studio's Output Panel

3.

You need to consult the Output window for more information.

View > Output

or

Ctrl+Alt+O

4.

Hi,

If we create a simple ASP.NET website and publish it using your VS 2008, does it have the same issue? If you are using Vista or Win 7, please try to run VS 2008 as Administrator. To troubleshoot the issue, you also can change "MSBuild project build output verbosity" option from (Tools menu, click Options, and then select the Projects and Solutions folder and click Build and Run) to

get detailed build steps.

5.

MSBuild does a good job of reporting build errors, but MSBuild can only report errors

that the underlying Tasks report. Custom tasks add a lot of variation to quality of the

error messages. Case in point is the following message, which popped up as a deadline

loomed.

Build FAILED.

0 Warning(s)

0 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:00:05.85

The build failed, but there are no errors to report. Yup. It's strange messages like this

that make me want to curse in German, but I don't know German, so I make the noises an

angry Klingon might make after living in Berlin for 5 years.

I couldn't find any problems in the output until I set MSBuild for maximum verbosity

(/verbosity:diagnostic, /v:diag for short), at which point I found this in the output:

Done building target "PrepareRdlFiles" in project "...".

Target "RunRdlCompiler" in file "...":

Building target "RunRdlCompiler" completely.

Output file "obj\Debug\RdlCompile.compiled" does not exist.

Using "RdlCompile" task from assembly "Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common ...".

Task "RdlCompile"

Done executing task "RdlCompile" -- FAILED.

Done building target "RunRdlCompiler" in project "CareAlertsWeb.csproj" -- FAILED.

Someone had added .rdlc files to the project. These are "Client Report Definition" files -

think of Reporting Services reports without a report server. Something was going wrong

compiling the .rdlc files, but there still wasn't any information to determine what the

problem was. Without knowing what else to do I started looking at the RdlCompile task

with Reflector.

The RdlCompile task is interesting. The task doesn't compile files in the traditional sense

(transform inputs into outputs). The task validates the report definition inside the .rdlc

file. This step ensures we'll get compile time errors instead of runtime errors from the

ReportViewer control if the report definition is invalid.

The assembly hosting RdlCompile referenced another assembly that was not on the build

machine (Microsoft.ReportViewer.ProcessingObjectModel). Mysterious. Why this caused

the task to fail without reporting a more specific error is also a mystery.

With all the assemblies were in place, the RdlCompile task finished with success. Running

ReportViewer.exe installs all the required assemblies, you can find it in %Program

Files%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages\ReportViewer.

6.

If you select this option, the markup is left as-is, allowing you to change HTML and client-side functionality after precompiling the Web site. Selecting this option is equivalent to adding the -u option to the aspnet_compiler.exe command. For more information, see Precompiling for Deployment with Updatable UI and ASP.NET C ompilation Tool (Aspnet_compiler.exe).

a). If you want to be able to update individual pages by recompiling them, select Use fixed naming and single page assemblies. This option might degrade the performance of a very large site. For more information, see the following

topics:

Precompiling to Fixed-Name Assemblies

ASP.NET C ompilation Tool (Aspnet_compiler.exe).

How to: Generate Fixed Names with the ASP.NET C ompilation Tool

b). If you want to be able to debug in the published Web site, select Emit debug information.

c). To create strongly named assemblies using a key file or a key container, select the Enable strong

naming on precompiled assemblies check box, select the appropriate radio button, and enter the

appropriate information Key file location or Key container box.

Strong-named assemblies can be deployed to the server's global assembly cache (GAC ) or to the Bin

directory of the application. A signed assembly makes it more difficult for malicious users to replace the

application's assemblies with malicious code. However, the complexity of key management in shared

development environments might outweigh the advantages of signed assemblies. For information about

strong-naming on assemblies, see the following topics:

Precompiling to Signed Assemblies

ASP.NET C ompilation Tool (Aspnet_compiler.exe)

How to: Sign Assemblies for Precompiled Web Site Projects

d). If you select Enable strong naming on precompiled assemblies, and if you use a key file, and if

you want to delay the signing of the key file, select Delay signing.

If you select this option, the assembly is signed in two stages: first with the public key file, and then with

a private key file that is specified later during a call to the aspnet_compiler.exe command.

e). If you selected Enable strong naming on precompiled assemblies, and if you want to allow the

assemblies to be called by partially trusted code, select Mark assemblies with

AllowPartiallyTrustedCallerAttribute (APTCA).

Assemblies must have the AllowPartiallyTrustedC allersAttribute attribute to be called by the ASP.NET

runtime. For more information, see AllowPartiallyTrustedC allersAttribute.

f). C lick OK.

Publishing status is displayed in the taskbar. When publishing is completed, the status of Publish

succeeded is displayed.

7.

The answer in the end was that it is a known bug:

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=317870

The answer is to modify project files (*.csproj) containing LINQ to SQL dbml files to remove some stuff, as

follows:

a. Close VS 2008.

b. Open the project file containing the LINQ To SQL item in Notepad.

c. Remove the following lines:

[ItemGroup]

[Service Include="{3259AA49-8AA1-44D3-9025-A0B520596A8C}"/]

[/ItemGroup]

The Setup Project will now build successfully. However, if you double-click the DBML file to open the designer in VS 2008 the Setup Project will stop building again. The above lines do not get re-added to the project file but the Setup Project will stop building anyway. Just restart VS 2008 and it will work again -- until you open the DBML designer again. Once the Setup Project fails due to this problem it will never build successfully until after you restart VS 2008.

8.

Another workaround listed worked : right click on the solution and click "Clean Solution" in Visual Studio

9.

You can edit a csproj file in VS without closing the solution: 1. from the project context menu unload the project, 2. from the context menu open the csproj file in VS, 3. edit & save, 4. from the context menu re-open the project

10.

Firstly, right-click on your Solution file > Properties > Configuration

In there, use the build tick boxes to experiment with which projects build together, and which don't. Also, in your file system, delete the debug/release folders for all of your projects.

Finally, in my experience, this error is usually caused by a corrupt/missing web.config

11.

Sometimes you get better error messages if you track down the build command (its in the output

windows) and looks like

E:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Csc.exe /noconfig /nowarn:1701,1702 /errorrep...blah..blah

Then run that manually at the command line. Also, the output window tends to have better information, even though Visual Studios default behavior is to show the "Errors List" window after a failed build.

12.

When you say cleaning, you mean Right Clicking on the Solutions and clicking Clean Solutions?

Have you tried removing all the built dlls from the Bin folder manually and making sure no other running applications have files open. Not sure if its sill an issue with VS, but files or folders starting with a "." can cause problems. eg if SubVersion is not set to use "_svn" instead of ".svn"

13.

Try moving the project root the root of the drive. I had run into an issue with a very large project where the path length was so long it had started to cause issues.

So rather than:

c:\My Documents and Settings\\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\\PrecompiledWeb\\..\..\..\..\..\abc.xyz

do this: c:\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\\..\..\..\..\..\abc.xyz

here Describes the name of the system User, Project name and \..\..\..\..\..\abc.xyz Describes files and folders inside the project which was created by user. Or can reduce to c:\Publish\\..\..\..\..\..\abc.xyz or to c:\\..\..\..\..\..\abc.xyz

and in the last but not the least I must say :-

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/345523/2008-web-deployment-projects-wdp-fail-build-without-error-when-the-visual-studio-2008-sdk-is-installed This is related to the Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects (WDP) as posted on http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/01/25/announcing-rtw-of-visual-studio-2008-web-deployment-projects-wdp.aspx as well as the Visual Studio 2008 SDK as posted on http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=30402623-93ca-479a-867c-04dc45164f5b&displaylang=en (from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsx/ ).

If 2008 Web Deployment Projects is installed and the Visual Studio 2008 SDK is NOT installed, Web Deployment Projects will build successfully.

If both 2008 Web Deployment Projects and the Visual Studio 2008 SDK are installed, Web Deployment Project builds will fail, but there will be no error messages.

If the Visual Studio 2008 SDK is uninstalled and the 2008 Web Deployment Projects installation is left unmodified, Web Deployment Projects will again build successfully.

It is important to note that no code in the solution (including both the Web Application Project and the Web Deployment Project) attempts to use the Visual Studio 2008 SDK in any way. The mere presence of the VS 2008 SDK on the system seems to corrupt the build process for Web Deployment Projects, even for a basic "Hello World" web application.

Two files are attached--

* Log - This is a log file of a Build attempt while the Visual Studio 2008 SDK is installed, with the log level set to "Diagnostic"

* Zip - This is a very basic solution that contains a "Hello World" Web Application Project and a corresponding Web Deployment Project. If the Visual Studio 2008 SDK is installed, this Web Deployment Project will fail to build, but there will be no errors. If the Visual Studio SDK is NOT installed, the entire solution will build successfully.