I have recently copied an entire Visual Studio project (folder containing all files and subfolders) from one machine to another.
I've then opened the project .sln file, and hit debug. The first error that i get it that it can't find Form1 (the very first Windows Form in my project). It gives me the option to select the file manually, but if i navigate to the Form1 file it tells me that the:
Source file is different from when the module was built. Would you like the debugger to use it anyway?
If i do this, the next thing i get is a DirectoryNotFoundException whereby it's looking at this file path:
Could not find a part of the path 'O:\TestDaws\CSDB'.
Now this file path did exist where i was running this program from previously (at work). Now i'm trying to run it from home, it does not. But i cannot find ANYWHERE that refers to the O: drive in my code. Tried searching and it finds nothing.
The only answers i can find seem related to Source Control. And i have no source control. Also seen people recommending deleting the .suo file. I'e tried that and that also has no affect.
The file path it's looking for must be in some meta data or settings file somewhere that Visual Studio creates, and i can't find. Any ideas please?
A small but very annoying issue I have:
In our current working way, all .config files are excluded from source control. Also a .tmpl file with the .config content is included in the source. So when I check out a project from source control I end up with:
[Triangle]Log4Net.config
Log4Net.Config.templ
In my solution explorer. Clicking on the Log4Net.config file (predictably) gives the error, "The item 'Log4Net.config' does not exist in the project directory. It may have been moved, renamed or deleted." Fair enough.
I am looking for a way to "make" that file, like for eg. right click force open, that will open a new empty editor window where I can paste in the content. (I can easily just copy it from the .tmpl file).
Anything like a plugin, or a keyboard shortcut or similar would be what I'm looking for.
Update: To clarify, the .sln/.csproj file(s) are checked in referencing the files. I check this out and open in visual studio. I see the yellow triangle moaning about missing files. Now I need to recreate these files, and I would like to use VS to do so...
How do you move a Visual Studio C# project and maintain the linked files?
For example;
I have a VC# Project that sits in folder: A/V2013_Project.
This VC# Project links to files A/Image/a.png this is because we have many other projects that use this file also.
I want to move my project to A/Release/V2013_Project. Ie move the project to a sub-folder.
I'm not renaming anything in the new project, not changing anything else except for the location of the project.
When I move the project all my links fail (theres more than 50) and most of my references fail. By fail, I mean they no longer point to the file. Within the newly moved VC# project; when I click on a linked file VC# displays an error:
Cannot find the file A/Image/a.png. It may have been moved or deleted.
But this file was never moved. Its still in exactly the same place.
How can I move a VC# project and maintain the links and references? Are there any 3rd party addons that can do this?
Edit: Using wintermute's advice; the links are indeed relative and not absolute. For example;
<Resource Include="..\..\Resources\Other\Images\TOOLBAR_close.png">
<Link>Resources\Other\Images\TOOLBAR_close.png</Link>
</Resource>
Any ideas how I can make links absolute in VC#?
It depends on how the file is linked. It isn't clear from your question.
Some files are references by the .csproj file. Close Visual Studio down (just to be sure) and open the .csproj file with Notepad or some other text editor. See if the files you're talking about are referenced there. If so, add the text "..\" in front of each file name, indicating they are one directory higher up, relative to the project location.
Some files are referenced in the .resx file(s). In this case Visual Studio should have included the name of the .resx file as part of the error message. This can be fixed using Visual Studio's editor. Double-click on the error message and it should open the .resx file with the file reference that is in error as the selected line. Again, add "..\" in front of the file name.
You say you have 50 references. Hopefully this means you can search-and-replace to add the "..\" text to the relevant file names.
Edit:
You posted an edit to your question, showing this line:
<Resource Include="..\..\Resources\Other\Images\TOOLBAR_close.png">
If you really want to make this absolute, then just do it.
<Resource Include="D:\Merlinia\Trunk-Debug\Add-Ons\Picture Editor\VS2012 projects\PictureEditor\Resources\Other\Images\TOOLBAR_close.png">
But as I mention in a comment on your question, make sure this is the best way to fix the problem.
I've got a Silverlight application with one Silverlight project and a host web project.
I renamed the namespace of the Silverlight application where the App.xaml is in. I did this via a refactoring tool. Afterwards the debugger just ignored the breakpoints. It's popping out the error shown in the title of this thread.
So I thought that maybe the refactoring tool fails, so I recovered the project with the old namespace in and renamed everything by hand (find in files). The app works, still, but I get the same error.
What the heck is this?
It sounds like the xap file name changed and you need to update the javascript to reflect the new name change. ;-)
Okay I solved this problem. My refactoring tool renamed everything fine. Even the name of the actual .xap file, which gets generated. The only thing which the refatoring tool did not fix is this line:
<param name="source" value="ClientBin/OldXapFileName.xap"/>
This was the reason, why the hosting project loaded the old xap file, everytime is started the application.
#Andrei Schneider: Thanks anyway. Your comment got me to deleting the ClientBin folder. So I've been asking myself why my application crashes, even though the new xap file got copied into the ClientBin folder.
I'm trying to publish project (tools vs2010), but cannot all the time getting the error below.
I paste to my projects files from another project and then I changed namespace (OldProjectName) to the parent project (NewProjectName). But it still getting information from somewhere about old project.
I cleaned solution, builded, rebuilded. Closed and reopened again and all the time the same error.
I'm able to build project but publish it.
Any ideas what can cause the problem?
Error 1 Copying file
obj\Debug\OldProjectName.csproj.FileListAbsolute.txt to
obj\Debug\Package\PackageTmp\obj\Debug\OldProjectName.csproj.FileListAbsolute.txt
failed. Could not find file
'obj\Debug\OldProjectName.csproj.FileListAbsolute.txt'. 0 0 NewProjectName
Open your .csproj file in notepad
Find "obj\Debug\OldProjectName.csproj.FileListAbsolute.txt"
Remove that line and save it
Open your project and try to publish it and this time you will be succeeded.
Note: if you are getting any more file like .pdb remove that as well.
Hope it will help you
Make sure the obj folder is not read only, if so change read only property of this folder to false. this worked for me.
Check the permissions to the folder obj\Debug\ if you give it write permissions, the error would go away.
Check if the folders "bin" and "obj" are checked-in to source control, if so delete those two folders in source control. There is no need to check-in these two folders to source folders. Also make sure that these folders "obj" and "bin" are deleted from your hard disk, they will be created again after a build.
Hope this will fix your issue.
It is your responsibility to make copies so you can go back to one.
Open your project file (vb/cs)proj with a notepad, and search for the missing files.
In my case I got this error when I tried to publish the project and certain files were not found.
Each publish attempt I got another file name, after checking that the file actually didn't exist in the project, I removed it from the project file, manually.
Then publish succeeded.
Delete the obj folder and build again.
Ref: http://forums.asp.net/t/1402005.aspx
Like many others these files were read only and needed to be deleted or actually able to be overwritten by VS. However, as may be the case for many others, the problem was because these files were checked in to source control. Your bin and obj folders should not be in source control. Mark them for delete and submit the changelist.
One exception to the rule is for the bin folder could be dll files that are not .Net compatible. Such as a C/C++ dll that you are using through a .Net wrapper dll. I mark them as content so that they get published and check them into source control.
I too had this problem. I resolved this by deleting files inside project bin folder (.dll and .pdb) and closed and re-opened VS .
The file named FileListAbsolute.txt was deleted from the folder obj/debug. Visual Studio can automatically recreate the file and others in the obj/debug for you.
For VS to recreate it, set the configuration of the solution and the project to debug mode. Then rebuild your solution.
To change the configuration mode to debug, from the solution explorer, right-click on the solution name and select Properties.
Select Configuration under Configuration Properties. Then select Debug from the dropdown list.
Click Apply and OK. Ensure that in Configuration Manager, the configuration mode is also a debug mode.
Then rebuild your solution.
For me using solution here: Certain Razor views not publishing
Excluding the views folder and re-including fixed it for me. So it's possible for anyone else experiencing this it may be as simple as excluding and then including the file/folder in question of your project.
I encountered this bug using VS2017 with a solution stored in OneDrive.I suspected OneDrive's sync mechanism to be the root cause of this.
When I tried to reproduce using VS2019 however it did not reappear. Looks solved in between these versions.