How to fix Root element is missing when doing a Visual Studio VS Build

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How to fix  Root element is missing   when doing a Visual Studio  VS  Build   Any idea what file I should look at in my solution   Actually  I am getting this error message inside of  Visual Build Pro  when using using the  Make VS 2008  command  This command works just fine when building other solutions  like about 20  and I am not really sure why mine is getting the error     Any help would be very much appreciated        I am using VS 2008 and Visual Build Pro 6 7

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In my case I was getting missing element error pointing to NuGet Config file  At that time it was looking some thing like this   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt settings gt     lt repositoryPath gt Packages lt  repositoryPath gt   lt  settings gt    then I just added configuration tag that actually wraps entire xml  Now working fine for me   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt configuration gt     lt settings gt        lt repositoryPath gt Packages lt  repositoryPath gt     lt  settings gt   lt  configuration gt

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In my case it was the xxxxxxxxxxxx vcxproj user file that was causing the problem  it was blank after a crash  I renamed it and the problem went away

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My project did not load and gave me a Root Element Missingerror  I just deleted      csproj user file  and reloaded it again  The problem was solved this way

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Make sure any XML file  or any file that would be interpreted as an XML file by visual studio  has a correct XML structure - that is  one root element  with any name  I have use rootElement in my example     lt  xml version  1 0   gt    lt rootElement gt        lt  rootElement gt

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This error is caused by corrupted proj file    Visual Studio always has backup project file at specific folder   Please browse to    C  Users  lt Your user gt  Documents Visual Studio  lt Vs version gt  Backup Files  lt your project gt    You should see 2 files like this   Original-May-18-2018-1209PM  lt your project gt  csproj Recovered-May-18-2018-1209PM  lt your project gt  csproj   You only need copy file    Original-May-18-2018-1209PM  lt your project gt  csproj   And re-name as    lt your project gt  csproj    and override at root project folder   Problem is solved

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In my case Microsoft Common CurrentVersion targets was corrupted  I copied this file from other system and it worked

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I had this issue running VS 2017  on build I was getting the error that the  root element was missing   What solved it for me was going to Tools   Nuget Package Manager   Package Manager Settings   General   Clear all Nuget Caches  After doing that I ran the build again and it was fixed

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In my case  i was using vs 2010 with crystal report  Innerexception revealed root element is missing error  Go to directory like C  Users sam AppData Local dssms dssms vshost exe Url uy5is55gioxym5avqidulehrfjbdsn13 1 0 0 0 which is given in the innermessage and make sure user config is proper XML  mine was blank for some reason

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In my case  I got this error because of an empty packages config file  This caused the NUGET package manager to fail and show the error Root element is missing  The resolution was to copy over elements from another non-empty file and then change it according to the needs   Example  packages config     lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt packages gt    lt package id  Microsoft AspNet Web Optimization  version  1 1 3  targetFramework  net451   gt    lt package id  Newtonsoft Json  version  5 0 4  targetFramework  net451   gt   lt  packages gt

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In my case the problem occurred due to closing my PC while visual studio were remain open  so in result csproj user file saved empty  Thankfully i have already backup  so i just copied all xml from csproj user and paste in my affected project csproj user file  so it worked perfectly   This file just contain building device info and some more

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In xamarin form project  I deleted    VS Project folder  ProjectName Android csProj User ProjectName Android csProj bak

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I had a few massive VS2015 Community crashes      Delete all the  csproj user files   which were full of null characters  and also these     C  Users UserName AppData Local Temp        NETFramework Version v4 0 AssemblyAttributes cs    NETFramework Version v4 5 AssemblyAttributes cs    NETFramework Version v4 5 2 AssemblyAttributes cs

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In my case the RDLC files work with resource files   resx   I had this error because I hadn t created the correspondent resx file for my rdlc report   My solution was add the file  resx inside the App LocalResources in this way    rep  rep myreport rdlc  rep App LocalResources myreport rdlc resx

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Ho i simply solved this issue by going to source control explorer and selected the issue project  right clicked and selected the option Get Specific Version under Advanced menu  And then selected Type as Latest Version and ticked following two check boxes and clicked Get button  Then i refreshed the solution and my project came back to live and problem gone  Please note that This may overwrite your local projects so your current changes may lose  So if you dont have any issues with your local copy then you can try this  Hope it helps

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In my case  when I opened the  csproj file  it was empty so I went to my previous commit in git and copied the contents of that file and pasted it my current  csproj file  After which I deleted the  csproj user file  reloaded my project  and everything started working again

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This error can sometimes occur when you edit some Project Toolchain settings Atmel Studio 6 1 2730 SP2   In my case I tried to edit Project Properties   Toolchain   Linker   General settings with  All Configurations  selected in the Configuration  When I checked or unchecked a setting  a dialog with the error popped up  However  I found that I could make the same edits if I made them to only one build configuration at a time  i e  with only  Debug  or  Release  selected instead of  All Configurations    Interestingly  I later was able to edit the same Linker settings even with  All Configurations  selected  I don t know what changed in my project that made this possible

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I got same error  showing error Microsoft Data Entity could not loaded root element missing  When i delete that file from C  Windows Microsoft NET Framework v4 0 30319 and again open my solution my problem was solved  Everything woks fine

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I got this issue on a Web API project   Finally figured out that it was in my       method comments   I have these comments set to auto-generate documentation for the API methods   Something in my comments made it go crazy   I deleted all the carriage returns  special characters  etc   Not really sure which thing it didn t like  but it worked

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In my case xxxx pubxml user was not loaded when tried to publish the application  I deleted the file and restart the Visual studio then created a new profile to publish it  problem is solved and published successfully

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In my case  I just renamed the  csproj user and restart the visual studio and opened the project  It automatically created another  csproj user file and the solution worked fine for me

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No one of these solutions fixed my problem    In my case  I finished my work and I shut down my computer  The day after I wasn t able to compile my project  I tried some of these solutions and I realized all my projects weren t work    To Fix it  I reinstall  net core Framework   Visual Studio 2017

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I had Blue Screen while running Visual Studio 2013   when I Restart I intended to run again my project  but I had always this headius Error  anyway   Deleting The Folders with the Temp info Fix this problem  in my case the Project was a Windows Server  and Basically it Creates a Folder  with some Tem info   the folder was  C  Users User NAME AppData Local NAme OF THeProject   inside Exist a Folder with the Name of the Project  some Generated GUI Service ServerHostLoader Url u2jn0xkgjf1th0a3i2v03ft15vj4x52i  this is the Folder I deleted and now I can run again the Project

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You can also search for the file   Navigate to your project directory with PowerShell and run Get-FileMissingRoot   function Get-FileMissingRoot        dir -recurse           where                   -is  IO FileInfo   -and                   xml     config   -contains    extension                       foreach                xml   New-Object Xml XmlDocument               filename      FullName             try                    xml Load  filename                            catch                   write   File       filename                  write     Exception Message

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In my case  the file C  Users xxx AppData Local PreEmptive Solutions Dotfuscator Professional Edition 4 0 dfusrprf xml was full of NULL   I deleted it  it was recreated on the first launch of Dotfuscator  and after that  normality was restored

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I had the same problem in a Xamarin Forms project  iOS project was unavailable and I couldn t reload the project  I was looking for a solution that doesn t need uninstalling anything    The answer I got from this blog  https   dev to codeprototype xamarin-form-application-failed-to-load-android-project-root-element-missing--27o0  So without uninstalling anything  you could delete the  csproj user file  or rename it  so Visual Studio will create the file again  Worked for me twice

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Deleting the  user file is exactly what fixed the problem for me  Lightning strike near the office shut my PC down and corrupted my  user file and project wouldn t load  I opened the file in Notepad   and the  spaces  turned out to be  NULL  characters  Deleted the  user file and the file loaded   source https   forums asp net t 1491251 aspx Can t load project because root element is missing

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You will also get  root element is missing  when the BOM strikes     BOM   byte order mark  This is an extra character that gets added to the start of a file when it is saved with the wrong encoding  This can happen sometimes in Visual Studio when working with XML files  You can either code something to remove it from all your files  or if you know which file it is you can force visual studio to save it with a specific encoding  utf-8 or ascii IIRC      If you open the file in an editor other than VS  try notepad     you will see two funny characters before the  lt   xml declaration   To fix this in VS  open the file in VS and then depending on the version of VS   File   Advanced Save Options   choose an appropriate encoding File   Save As   keep the filename  click the drop-down arrow on the right side of the save button to select an encoding

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In my case I upgraded to VS2017 and wanted to build all projects with MSBuild 4 with my build script  which had been using MSBuild 3 5 when we were using VS2015   That MSBuild upgrade appeared fine for the Windows desktop applications but the ones for Windows CE with compact framework would give me this confusing error  Reverting to MSBuild 3 5 for Windows CE projects fixed the issue for me   I did have the BOM in  csproj files by the way and removed them for all projects in a solution that would not build but that did not help

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In my case   csproj was changed to encoded format  I did undo changes to csproj in Git Team explorer  and reloaded the project file  This solved the problem

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Hey  I have the same issue on Mac working on a Cocoa C  solution   But I solved it     It always say that the root element is missing so it cannot load my C  project file   I have the 2017 Visual Studio Mac Community Edition  I finally managed to find a solution after several hours  painful     My solution is because the frameworks related to the Visual Studio are old or broken  I found this because I tried to create a new Mac solution by Cocoa and it said  failed to save the solution   Then  I tried to create an Android Solution and it is working fine  Go to your  Finder  and  Go  -   Go to a Folder  then go to the  Library Frameworks   I have deleted mono framework and frameworks related to Xamarin because I believe these Xamarin frameworks are broken   Then  uninstalled the Visual Studio and reinstalled it   Now everything works fine

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In my case I received a message like this  See this picture  I just commented the snipped code below in the project file   csproj  and the problem was fixed    lt Import Project    MSBuildBinPath  Microsoft CSharp targets    gt

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