I have an issue while I try to build project in VS2012.
It cannot build due to the error:
Couldn't process file xxx.resx due to its being in the Internet or Restricted
zone or having the mark of the web on the file. Remove the mark of the web if
you want to process these files.
Here is a similar question.
but I tried that option and had no luck, because I did not download the file from the internet. That project was built from scratch. In project after selecting Properties, in Windows Explorer nothing happened. I do not have the "unblock" option, only the default three options (read only, hidden, and archived).
I have the same error and cannot build or rebuild the project. I have a theory that it is a recent error after updating Windows. Before the update, everything worked fine. Any ideas?
Go to xxx.resx file in Windows File Explorer. Right-click and select properties. At the bottom of the the dialog is an "unblock" option:
Check this and click Apply. Clean your solution and it will build.
In my case I had the same problem with many files.
My solution with VS Prof. 2017 V15.95 was:
Open powershell and execute dir -Path [directory path] -Recurse | Unblock-File
Rebuild all
On the solution folders locate abc.resx.
Open the file using any text editor, preferably Notepad++.
Locate and delete any node starting with <data
Example. This is what you should delete.
<data name="$this.Icon" type="System.Drawing.Icon, System.Drawing" mimetype="application/x-microsoft.net.object.bytearray.base64">
<value>
AAABAAMAICAAAAEAIACoEAAANgAAAGBgAAABACAAqJQAAN4QAACAgAAAAQAgACgIAQCGpQAAKAAAACAA
AABAAAAAAQAgAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
///////////8AAB/////////
</value>
</data>
Reload or reopen your solution and build. You are ready to go.
Had the same problem after updating to VS 2017 v15.8.5, and none of the solutions above or on other forums worked for me.
So, since a .resx file is just XML, I just copied the content, deleted the original file and recreated it with the copied content.
That was the only thing that worked, and it worked first time.
A quick way to remove this mark of the web for multiple files and folders recursively for me was to
Zip them up.
Delete originals.
Unzip.
I'm not really sure either, I have the exact same issue.
But, what i did, was hit view in file explorer.
Then, i clicked show hidden items.
Finally, i went back to my folder and clicked on the .vs folder, my project/file name, v15, Server, sqlite3, and deleted DB.Lock.
I reopened the project, clicked build, and it worked perfectly.
This worked for me, it might/might not for you.
I also encountered this issue recently. The error began occurring after I set the icon of a Windows Form.
Researching for the cause and solution almost led me nowhere, because I did not download the icon from the internet, nor was I referencing a web-based icon file. It was stored entirely on my local machine.
After some more researching and digging around, I was able to figure out exactly what was causing the problem. I have Microsoft One-Drive installed on my machine. The directory in which the icon file was located is managed/synced by One-Drive. That fact was somehow tricking Visual Studio into believing the file was located or downloaded from the internet.
The solution proved to be very simple. I removed the icon from the form, as well as from the corresponding .resx file. Then I moved the icon file to another directory not associated with One-Drive. Finally, I was able to use that icon in my Windows Forms application without getting this error.
I understand there are other possible causes for this error. But if in your case, the issue happened after setting a form's icon--and if you have One-Drive (or perhaps another cloud-based storage solution) installed--then check to be sure that icon file is not in a directory managed by that service. If so, relocate it and change the form's icon property to point to the new location.
To fix this for multiple files within a project, Visual Studio -> Tools -> Options -> Trust Settings and add the project path as a trusted path.
Using VS 2019, and building against source stored on an Azure shared file system. I think I may have just tracked down a work-around, and it has to do with the Icon as referenced above by Jake above. If I add the icon to the form's resource file (that really long string), The error occurs.
However, if I add the Icon to the Project's resources, delete the Icon from the form's resource file, and change form to set the Icon manually...
this.Icon = MyProjectName.Properties.Resources.MyIcon;
The error goes away.
I found this solution on another forum. My project resided on a file share, so I had to enter file://[file share] for Step 4 below. I am running VS2019 on Windows 10.
Start Menu > type 'Internet Options'.
Select Local intranet zone on the Security tab then click the Sites button
Click Advanced button
Enter file://[computer name] or file://[file share]
Make sure 'Require server verification...' is unticked
I had the same issue in Windows 10 VS 2019 16.4.457 (previous version of VS 2019 had no problems).
The "marked for web" error shows only after I moved the project under One-Drive.
If I move the project back to a local drive the error doesn't show.
As Anthony Gingrich suggested, I tried to move the project images to a local directory without success.
The solution that works for me was, for each image, in the "Select Resource dialog" use "Project resource file" instead "Local resouce".
Please guys, I already fixed the issue, this is cause by OneDrive, please close your OneDrive with the use of task manager or close the icon OneDrive's Hidden Icons on the taskbar
I just ran into the same issue and also tried the Unblock option from explorer with no luck. I even restarted VS with no luck.
However, I'm not sure which combination did the trick but I opened the form as well as the resx file from within VS, just to see if I can open it, which opened fine. I then did a clean and rebuild and that appeared to do the trick. If it doesn't try restarting VS after the clean then rebuild.
I had a similar issue and the problem was an image that I had downloaded and added to my Resources. Not completely sure why that was the only image that gave me problems, however, I opened my abc.resx file giving me issues an a text editor, removed the node starting with " (it was the last and only node) just like Albert Alberto mentioned. Saved the changed, cleaned and rebuilt my solution and it all works! The image didn't render but it only took a second to go back and add the image. It wasn't removing the entire file, just the node that was causing the issue.
I had the same problem on Windows 10, VS 2017 (15.9.13). I sent myself a project from work through Dropbox so I could try a couple of things from home. But when I tried to build it VS gave me the 'marked for web' error.
After trying the solutions above without success I began experimenting. I was able to solve this by using the method listed above (right click -> properties -> unblock), but I had to do it for each of the images in the Resource folder--and I had to do EACH FILE individually since the 'unblock' option was not available on group-selects. I actually unblocked each source file in the project as well before trying to rebuild so I am not sure if both are required.
Its a bit of a pain--probably a huge pain for larger projects--but it absolutely got the project building again.
EDIT: I did find this article afterwards about unblocking entire folders--even recursively but have not tried it: https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/bulk-unblock-files-downloaded-internet/
None of these worked for me. I fixed it by converting the embedded base64 into a linked resource:
I found out the issue was with the embedded base64 image I had in the .resx (as the issue went away removing the data tag as explained in this question but that meant I removed the image) so I converted the embedded image into a .png file and made a link to that in the .resx.
To do that: open the .resx file in Visual Studio 2019 and double-click the image, and then click Ok and Yes in the following prompts that will appear so VS will convert the embedded image into a linked resource (sorry I can't upload pictures yet):
Hope it helps!
From my original comment.
My images won't load after I publish my application. They do load when I'm debugging. Any idea what can cause this problem?
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Steps to add images to be published:
1) Right click the images folder and select "Include In Project"
2) Now you should see Build Action: Content on the properties for the images.
Try Url.Content on your src attribute:
src="#Url.Content("~/Images/Logo.png")"
Are you sure you have set the Image folder to be deployed along with your other files (Folder --> Properties --> Build Action)?
For further information please take a look at:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee942158(v=vs.110).aspx#Anchor_1
Please check your publish code because of after your publish this image not appear in particular folder. may be issue of publish.
Maybe you do add image to your development folder (via explorer etc) but not to your project. If an image file is not included in project, this will happen.
If this is the case; please check if you can see logo.png under Images folder with an image icon in Visual Studio's solution explorer. If it's not there try checking "Show All Files" in solution explorer's toolbar. Then try right click -> Include In Project. After that, publish will copy the file to output folder.
THIS may help.
I had the same problem - image loading at debugging in VS/IIS, but not after deployment on another computer.
Did all that was advised here and elsewhere.
After hours of searching and not finding any answers, I came across the most fundamental solution.
Turned out, it was my fault, being too hasty with the windows features setup.
You need to turn on static content for WWW services, as it is described in the linked answer, and as was probably mentioned in every tutorial ever, which obviously I missed.
Hope that helps someone.
When a image wont load, always be sure to inspect the network tab within the dev tools.
I had a problem where images with a specific folder wouldn't load after upload. Turned out that I had adblock installed on my pc and the folder was named Adverts. duh!
I have some solution already created I need to work with, but I get these:
Warning 1 At least one file is missing the 'RelPath' attribute. SolutionName
Error 2 Source file '' could not be found C:\Users\me\Desktop\someDir\someDir\CSC SolutionName
I use VS Express 2013 for Desktop.
I get this error when I click rebuild solution
Why I get this error and how to fix it?
Create a backup of your project file.
In solution explorer, right click your project and unload it. Then right click again and "Edit project file".
There you can inspect your files. There should be a problem with one of them, like lacking a file name, or something different from the other files.
Remove the attributes regarding that file, save the project, right click, reload project.
For some reason, visual studio (2012) is not reading any changes in my code. It will recognize an error but, for example, if I get rid of something that makes a window appear, a window will still appear. I am also unable to debug my code (I get the 'symbols not loaded for this document' error). This has been going on for a few days.
I'm not quite sure what to do. I've cleared the visual studio cache but that didn't help. I've changed the startup project settings around but that doesn't change anything either. This is all from my local machine (no source/version control). Does anyone know why this is?
I fixed this by deleting the .suo (silverlight user options) file, as was suggested in the link below, thanks #amalgamate
http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/2011/08/why-visual-studio-debugger-is-not.html
Try Build > Clean Solution then Build
This may not be your answer and I do not know silver light, but I have found the symbols not loaded error often when the solution file lost track of where a project file was, or when a project file lost track of a library. Maybe the file is missing, or maybe someone else on your team directed it else where etc.. To fix this in project explorer, right click on the solution or project and re-add the particular reference or project (using the add menu item). You may then have to remove the old project/ or reference. You will know the references and projects are bad because of the icon next to them in the project explorer. The bad links will also be listed in the output of your build with the bad links named.
I have the following problem.
I made an application in C# (using Visual Studio 2010). Everything worked fine.
Then I had to make some changes in a "main.cs". Did those... all fine again.
Then I had to make other changes in same file. Did those... cleaned the solution built it. The problem is that when I run/debug/anything the application I get the same result as I did before I made the changes. I even tried to break the code (called a random function that didn't exist, used wrong syntax), but the result was the same "Build successful" and the old version.
Is there some kind of cacheing mechanism or something? How do I get rid of this problem?
I added prints for the "compile" solution... I can't find the build property.
Try deleting the bin and obj directories in the Visual Studio project directory. The obj directory contains the temporary files used to create the binary while the bin directory contains the binaries for that project. In addition, check if there are any warnings being shown when you build your solution.
I was able to reproduce the same error i.e. build successfully even though the file has not been compiled. The Build Action of the file had not been set to Compile.
The correct Build Action for a code file (main.cs) would be Compile.
According the updated question the file properties does not have the compile option
The reason for this is that the file (main.cs) has not been included in the project, but the "Show all files" button is "on" in the Solution Explorer. The file has not been included in the project (hence not compiled) and the file icon is greyed out in Solution Explorer.
To include this file in the project, right click on add existing item to the project (see following image). In the subsequent dialog select the file (main.cs) and click on the add button.
This should solve your problem.
In future, it is best to keep the "Show All Files" button as "off" to avoid confusion.
Is it possible you have selected the build and run last successful version? Check out my answer to something similar here. If the changes you made broke something and you had checked the boxes and hit yes to the dialog boxes in my answer below then that's most likely the issue.
Cannot see changes I make when I run my application in Visual Studio
Make a backup of your solution.
Delete the .cs files from within the solution explorer. If your program compiles and runs, than you are linked to source folders and not actually using the one in your solution.
I doubt this is it, but worth a try. The other things that came to mind you have already eliminated out with the previous answers.