How to find reason of failed Build without any error or warning

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I have a WebApplication which contains reference to WCF services   While building using Visual Studio 2010  Build fails without any error or warning  However building the  csproj using MsBuild is successful   Can t figure out what should I try in Visual Studio  to resolve   diagnose the issue  Can you please help out   EDIT   I find out that the build has been failing    From text displayed in status Bar   From output window               Build  0 succeeded or up-to-date  1 failed  0 skipped

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A different way to reproduce this symptom:

I added a new project to an existing solution and the build output reported errors like "the type or namespace name X could not be found..." but no errors were presented in the error list.

The classes I referred to were in other projects (that were referenced) in the same solution.

It turned out that I by mistake had selected an earlier version of .net in the new project. Once I changed to the same version as the other projects, everything built without any errors.

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Seems that there are multiple answers to this question  so I ll add mine from personal experience hoping it will save someone time stress    Make sure all the projects in your solution are targeting the same  NET version    Similar to OP  there were 0 errors but the build kept failing  However  there was one warning entry  buried in between several hundred useless XML warnings     saying that one project was targeting a different  NET version than a project that was referencing it  The entire issue was that one project within my solution was targeting  NET 4 5 2  when the rest were targeting 4 5 1  It should work even with this discrepancy  hence why it was just a warning  but unfortunately  it broke the build   The strange part was that it built ran fine for a while  but suddenly the build started failing one time causing this issue  Not sure what I did for it to start complaining about differing  NET target versions  but I feel that there are just some mysteries in Visual Studio that will never be solved

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If nuget package  Microsoft Net Compilers  is installed  make sure that it suits version of your Visual Studio  Build Tools version    Versions 1 x mean C  6 0  Visual Studio 2015 and updates   For instance  1 3 2  So don t upgrade to version above 1 x if you use VS2015  https   stackoverflow com a 44397905 3862615

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I had the same problem  The error list window has 2 dropdowns  Show items contained by  and   Show issues generated   These names are visible after hovering over the dropdown  The  Show issues generated  dropdown was set to  Build   IntelliSense  and after changing to  Build Only  the errors appeared on the list

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I had this same problem and I traced this issue down to the Error List options  Build   Intellisense     If this option is selected then no errors are shown in the list  Switch to  Build Only  and the errors appear as expected   Its look like a bug in Visual Studio  Restarting the visual studio solved this issue

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Nothing was working for me so I deleted the  suo file  restarted VS  cleaned the projected  and then the build would work

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I had the same problem after deleting a couple of forms  The errors popped up once I went into the code and did a  Show Definition  for one of the controls that I removed   I was also targeting a higher framework on one of my projects  so that might have been the issue as well

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Firstly   Clean the  Solution    then Rebuild soln   If won t work close the Solution and restart the solution   Try these things  hope definitely works

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If solution contains more than one project  try building them one at a time  Try restart Visual Studio  Try restart Computer  Try  Rebuild all  Try  Clean Solution  then remove your  vspscc  files and  vssscc  files and then restart Visual Studio and then  Rebuild All

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Build   Intellisense swallowed the error messages  Selecting Build Only displayed them

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On my side  i got this problem when i added a new project  Library    How i solved it  Right click the new added Library go to Properties then Application  under Application change the Target Framework to the framework of all projects   The problem is that you have project using different target frameworks

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On other possibility is that Visual Studio needs to run as Administrator  this might be related to deploying to local IIS server or other deployment need

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Restarting the Visual Studio worked for me  Also try restarting Visual Studio normally  Not Run as Administrator   Try Restarting the System and repeat above step

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It s may be due difference reportviewer version in your project and VS

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I ve tried all but nothing worked in my case then I ve changed these mentioned settings which resolved the issue quite well for me  Try If it could of any help latter viewers  These settings could be vary in your situation but make sure build all the including DLLs with the same config settings you kept initially  mentioned in the image        Cheers

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Go to output window   search for  error  in output window  TADA

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I have faced the same issue recently  I also tried so many things like  restart Visual Studio  Clean and rebuild Solution  restart PC etc   First of all make sure all the projects in your solution are targeting the same  NET version   But apparently nothing worked for me so I followed the below procedure   Save pending changes in the project and close Visual Studio Find the exact location from file explorer and find  quot obj quot  file and open it     Then  delete all the included files  some files won t remove  it doesn t matter  just skip them    Use run command  by pressing Windows Key   R  and type  quot  temp  quot  and press enter to find temporary files   Finally  delete them all    This worked for me  hopefully it works for your case

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Try building your project from the Powershell command line   dotnet build   Then you can see any errors in the command line output even if Visual Studio is playing hide and seek with build error messages

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With Visual Studio 2019  I had to  Run as as administrator  and it finally built ok  So open the application as admin  right mouse click- run as Administrator

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Just for the sake of completion and maybe helping someone encountering the same error again in the future  I was using Mahapps metro interface and changed the XAML of one window  but forgot to change the partial class in the code-behind  In that case  the build failed without an error or warning  and I was able to find it out by increasing the verbosity of the output from the settings

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Delete  vs folder  amp  restart VS  worked for me

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I faced the same problem  Just delete bin folder and restart your VS  That s all  tested in VS 2013

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In my case I set Diagnostic for the MSBuild verbosity as shown here   Guess what    in the last line of the Output window in Visual Studio it showed this   2 gt  C  Company Project project sharded Project Project csproj   Rebuild BuiltProjectOutputGroup BuiltProjectOutputGroupDependencies DebugSymbolsProjectOutputGroup DebugSymbolsProjectOutputGroupDependencies DocumentationProjectOutputGroup DocumentationProjectOutputGroupDependencies SatelliteDllsProjectOutputGroup SatelliteDllsProjectOutputGroupDependencies SGenFilesOutputGroup SGenFilesOutputGroupDependencies target   1  - gt  2 gt  CoreCompile target  - gt   2 gt   C  Company Project project sharded Project Services UserService cs 387 59 387 62   error CS0136  A local or parameter named  sut  cannot be declared in this scope because that name is used in an enclosing local scope to define a local or parameter 2 gt  2 gt     2147 Warning s  2 gt     1 Error s    This looks like a bug in Visual Studio 2019  16 3 5    No errors were shown in the Error List window in Visual Studio   This is the kind of errors that generally appear in the Error List window   This is the offending line   var sut    sdb SysUsableThreads SingleOrDefault sut   gt  sut uid    thread uid  amp  amp  sut thread core    thread core     OK  Can t use sut because the var is named sut and I named the lambda sut  Again  this is the kind of thing that should be displayed in the Error List  For sure this is a bug in Visual Studio 2019  I reported it inside Visual Studio

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Since everything did not work  found that errors don t show when opening the project as solution   sln   while the error shows when opening the project as a project

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I had a similar problem after adding a new project  called  TestCleaner   to my solution  Build failed  no errors   I increased output verbosity  see Richard J Foster s instructions  and searched the output for  failed   I quickly discovered which project was failing  and why  project  TestRunner  had failed with  error CS0246  The type or namespace name  TestCleaner  could not be found   even though no problems were highlighted in the code    Checking TestRunner s references  sure enough the reference to TestCleaner was marked as unresolved  and the path was missing from the reference properties  Deleting and re-adding didn t fix it  Again  no explanation why   unresolved reference  I finally discovered the cause   TestCleaner  was using a different target framework to the other projects  It was  Net 4 5 2  the others were 4 5

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VS  2013 Pro  Win 8 1  restart did it for me

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I had the same issue  I changed Tools -  Options -  Projects and Solutions Build and Run -  MSBuild project build log file verbosity Diagnostic   This option shows error in log  due to some reasons my VS not showing Error in Errors tab      Do above settings and in output copy in notepad texteditor and search for error  It will show you all errors

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This happened to me after adding a new page to an asp net project   What I did was exclude the page  get it to build again successfully   Then I added back the page with all the code commented out  Success   Then I uncommented the code bit by bit and then it all worked

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For me  the Target Framework was the issue    My project s Target Framework was 4 5 2 and the referenced project s Target Framework was 4 6 1    Once I updated my project s Target Framework to 4 6 1  the issue got fixed

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I want to expand on Sasse s answer  To fix the problem with Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 I had to build each project one at a time and look at the output window after each build  One project gave me   quot The type or namespace name  SomeNamespace  does not exist in the namespace  BeforeSomeNamespace   are you missing an assembly reference   quot    There was no error in the Error List window but the assembly had a yellow warning sign under  quot References quot   I then saw that the referencing project targeted 4 5 1 and the referenced project 4 6 1  Changing 4 6 1 to 4 5 1 allowed the overall build to succeed

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this can happen when one of the projects referenced is a higher version of the  NET framework than your current project

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What solved it for me was deleting the  vs folder from the root of the solution and restarting Visual Studio   Also maybe important to say that even though the errors were not showing in the Error List pane  they were still present in the Output from the Build

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I just ran into a similar situation  In my case  a custom action  from the MSBuildVersioning package available on Nuget org - http   www nuget org packages MSBuildVersioning   which appeared in the csproj file s BeforeBuild target was failing without triggering any error message in the normal place  I was able to determine this by setting the  quot MSBuild project build output verbosity quot   in the latest Visual Studio s Tools tab  Path  Tools  gt  Options  gt  Build and Run   to  quot Diagnostic quot  as shown below  This then showed that the custom action  in my case HgVersionFile  was what had failed

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I had really old project on older machine  Project was building correctly when I turned off machine  Today  I am getting build error but no error message  After trying some of suggestion from above  no luck    In Visual Studio 2015  I turned on Detailed MSBuild under TOOLS   Options   Projects and Solutions   Build and Run   It gave me few details about build but no errors  After that I tried to check Extensions and updates  Tools   Extension and Updates  and found few of them needed update   Nuget Package was culprit  after updating Nuget - build is successful

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