Could not load type Namespace Global causing me grief

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In my  Net 2 0 Asp net WebForms app  I have my Global asax containing the following code    lt    Application CodeBehind  Global asax cs  Inherits  MyNamespace Global  Language  C     gt    However when I build I get an error stating-     Could not load type  MyNamespace Global     This seems to be because the MyNamespace namespace  defined in the code behind file Global asax cs  is not seen by the compiler in the Global asax file  does not show in R  intellisence     This turned out to be a very hard nut to crack    any help will be appreciated   Note  The Global asax and the Global asax cs are located in the same folder   Note2  When compiling from the vs prompt with csc it compiles o k

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Having been in the development game for almost 20 years, this chestnut has continued to plague me across multiple projects.

As such, today whilst experiencing this same problem again, against another project, I decided to investigate further and I do believe this is related to Bin folder location... or more specifically, the output path of the bin folder.

For me, for a simple service based web application configured to run/debug through IIS, it was changing the output path from bin\debug to bin\ that resolved it

Project > Properties > Build > Output path

Seriously hopes this helps.

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Have you changed the namespace of your project  I ve seen this happen occasionally where I ve changed the namespace in the Project Properties dialog but Visual Studio hasn t changed the namespace declaration in existing code files

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You need to set your Output path to bin

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Right Click on Project Solution and Select Batch Build  Then select Your Project Name and Clean And Rebuild    Works Fine For Me IN VS 2015 Now I can Use Global event  My Global asax file has this Line   lt    Application Language  C   CodeBehind    App Code Global asax cs  Inherits  Global    gt    And I make class file Global asax cs that is in AppCode folder that look like  public partial class Global   HttpApplication       public Global                               TODO  Add constructor logic here                      I hope this will help

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Here s another one for the books  It appears that this happens when you launch more than one web application from the same port number   Basically  I have a couple of branches that I work off  I have a main branch and a staging branch and a release branch  When I switched branch to the staging branch I noticed that it was using the same port address configuration so I opted to change that  I then received another warning that this reservation conflicts with another configured application  The IIS Express server is sensitive about that and for whatever reason it bricks the configuration   By simply picking a third unaffected port this problem went away because it then maps the port to a new directory mapping  my branches are located differently on disk   I noticed this because I tried to change the type name pointed to by Global asax but the type name was unchanged even after restarting the server  so clearly  the code I was changing wasn t reflected by the IIS Express deployment   So  before you lose too much sleep over this  try changing the IIS port number that is currently used to run the web project

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In my situation it was related to Web Site Web Application type of the project  We recently moved to MVC and had to change it to Web Application   So  the solution was simple  select your web-site in Solution Explorer and remove it from the solution  then right click on the solution and select Add -  Existing Project  not Web Site   recompile the web-site

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I ve run across this issue a few times and in each case I was rebuilding a computer or switching to a new computer   My first step  besides updating the machine and installing Visual Studio  is to pull my projects down from Git and test them   I hit this error each time because I tried to access my local code before compiling it   You see  I have Git and Subversion setup to ignore my bin build folders  so after a pull from my repository I forgot to run a build which pulls required packages from Nuget  since I have Git SVN ignore those too  and creates the DLLs needed to actually run my app   I doubt this will resolve most people s issues  but I didn t see it on the list of potential solutions so I thought I d add it

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Old post but I go this error when trying to convert from website project to web application project   Follow the instructions on this Link  I still got the global asax error but all I did was delete it and re-add it back by right clicking on the project in visual studio and selecting add new item  Add the global asax file and it worked

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in my case it was IISExpress pointing to the same port as IIS to solve it go to   C  Users Your-User-Name Documents IISExpress config applicationhost config   and search for the port  you will find  lt site gt     lt  site gt  tag that you need to remove or comment it

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Just wanted to add my two cents   I was receiving the same error  and I tried all the suggestions to no avail   My situation is probably different   Turns out  an auto-generated  AssemblyInfo cs  file had some extraneous spaces  which was preventing me from launching the web app  via debug    Here s what the file looked like    assembly  AssemblyTitle  WebApplication2     assembly  AssemblyDescription       assembly  AssemblyConfiguration       assembly  AssemblyCompany                     assembly  AssemblyProduct  WebApplication2     assembly  AssemblyCopyright  Copyright                   2017     assembly  AssemblyTrademark       assembly  AssemblyCulture        After killing the spaces in the AssemblyCompany and AssemblyCopyright  I was finally able to build and launch the project   Observed in the following environment  --Visual Studio 2017 Community version 15 3 0 --Win 7 x64 Enterprise --New Project   Visual C    Web   ASP NET Web Application   Web Forms

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I experienced a similar error when having a    lt clear  gt    tag as a child  the first child  of the    lt assemblies gt    tag in my Web config  I had inserted the tags in my web config in an attempt to prevent configuration inheritance in an application deployed under the  Default Web Site  in IIS

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In my case  It was because of my target processor  x64  I changed it to x86 cleaned the project  restarted VS 2012  and rebuilt the project  then it was gone

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I restarted Visual Studio and error was gone

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When I encountered this problem most recently I tried everything mentioned here but to no avail  After tearing my hair out I decided to try deleting my entire code base  yes  pretty desperate   and then re-downloaded everything from my code repository  After doing this everything worked fine once more   Seems an extreme solution but just thought I d include it here as it hasn t been mentioned before in this thread    Note that the other time I have encountered this issue  is when the Global asax was inheriting from a component which needed to be registered on the host machine  This was missing hence I got this same issue    TL DR  If all answers in this thread don t work for you  try deleting and then re-downloading your entire code base

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I had this issue when deploying on prod server only  In my other environments it works    I just deleted stuff in the bin folder then republish and it work after that

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I am new to asp  net developement and I faced the similar problem   I updated the class as a partial class and it worked fine   public partial class Global   System Web HttpApplication

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I ve tried to rebuild solution and clear ASP NET Temporary files without success  But after run IISRESET the error disappeared    Update  I had the same problem again 1 month later  I ve noticed that MyWebsite DLL exists in bin folder  but doesn t exist in Temporary ASP NET Files  C  Windows Microsoft NET Framework64 v4 0 30319 Temporary ASP NET Files   I ve tried a few things  that are suggested on this and  quot Parser Error Message  Could not load type quot  in Global asax questions  I actually forgot about my own answer   but the error disappeared again only after IISRESET

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Well In my case VS 2017  the lightweight solution load was causing this issue  I disabled it  amp  restarted VS then re-build my solution  amp  the problem gone

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In my case  I had added Global asax to a WCF project to experiment with it  but decided to remove it   I removed it from Solution Explorer  but because it was still in the folder  the pipeline was still finding it and causing this error   I removed the Global ASAX and GLobal asax cs from the filesystem and that did resolve the error

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I had a similar issues where I was receiving this error on a project        Could not load type  Namespace  Global Error in Line 1   etc etc   After spending some time I suspect a function with possible errors in a Class   later commenting that specific function my problem get resolved   I dont know why Visual Studio did t give me that specific  error at debugging time  But this error might occure due to some errors in class file

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I experienced this problem when I accidentally set  Chrome  to be the default browser for debugging  When I set it back to  IE  the problem disappeared  I am not sure why        EDIT  I was about to delete this answer  because I wasn t sure about it  but then I had the problem again  I switched to browsing with Chrome  then back again to IE and it stopped  What gives

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If you rebuild or change a project and move over files from an old one  make sure to check the Inherit block of your global   In my case  the former project solution was named intranet  and I had recreated it as Intranet  but when I moved over the files  it didn t like the lowercase  duh    Just do a general look-through of the names of the files

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As silly as it may sound  Here is what I did    My project was targeting 4 6 1 version  Changed the target version to 4 6 2  built it   deleted obj  amp  bin folders   amp  once again changed the version to 4 6 1  Bingo

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None of these worked for me  unfortunately  The fix I found was more specific to development  specifically  debugging on your local machine  Also unfortunately  it doesn t really fix the issue in the way I was hoping  but if you re at your wit s end  this might get you running again    TL DR  In the project properties  in the web tab  under Servers  Select Use Local IIS Web Server  The address    http   localhost MyApp     was already populated  I have IIS7   NET 4 0   What was originally selected was the  Use Visual Studio Development Server  with a Virtual path of      What s really puzzling to me is the fact that nothing else worked  I went through all of the suggestions I could find on SO  and nothing would work  The weird thing is  the error was  seemingly  it s been a few months since I last looked  manifested when I added a new ascx file that was similar to an existing one that was added from an old  net 2 0  I think  project that would allow for custom user management from within the application  It was working  beautifully  for a long time  until I tried adding this new file  After adding it  and seeing the error  I promptly reverted all changes  but the Global ascx error would not go away  not even blowing away the whole project and re-getting latest from source control

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One situation I ve encountered which caused this problem is when you specify the platform for a build through  Build Configuration      If you specify x86 as your build platform  visual studio will automatically assign bin x86 Debug as your output directory for this project  This is perfectly valid for other project types  except for web applications where ASP NET expects the assemblies to be output to the Bin folder     What I found in my situation was that they were being output to both  Bin and Bin x86 Debug   with the exception that some of the dll s  and inexplicably the most important one being your web application dll  being missing from the Bin folder   This obviously caused a compilation problem and hence the  Could not load type Global  exception   Cleaning the solution and deleting the assemblies made no difference to subsequent builds  My solution was to just change the output path in project settings for the web app to Bin  rather than bin x86 Debug

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Check the Build Action of Global asax cs   It should be set to Compile   In Solution Explorer  Right-click Global asax cs and go to Properties   In the Properties pane  set the Build Action  while not debugging    It seems that VS 2008 does not always add the  asax  cs  files correctly by default

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I was befuddled by the same darn issue  I tried to remove and and the global asax  closed VS2010 before adding   Cleaned the project solution  checked for any changes in the web application configuration and other stuffs that had worked for other people here in SO threads  I finally cleaned the solution  deleted the bin obj folders and stopped any running VS2010 development servers then I reverted all the changes back and found the application was running again  I redid the same things and now its working fine   Happened again and this time this solution worked for me

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I had converted my solution from VS2003 to VS2010 and had had problems converting the web application project   I experienced the exact same problem and none of the answers worked for me   What worked for me was    Right Click on the solution and select Configuration Manager Looked at each of the configurations in the  Active solution configuration  drop down list  Included the web application in the build by ticking the  Build  check-box    it would seem that the problems I had during the conversion had removed the web application project from the build for some reason   Hopefully this answer helps anyone else that has the same problem

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I had to delete  duplicate  files from disk that were not included in the project   Looks like the duplicates were caused by a failed rename  The file names were different  but same code   After deleting all the oof   files I was able to scan     foo aspx foo aspx cs foo aspx designer cs oof aspx oof aspx cs oof aspx designer cs

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go to configuration Manager under properties for your solution   Then make sure all projects and getting built  and this won t be a problem

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If you are using Visual Studio  You probably are trying to execute the application in the Release Mode  try changing it to the Debug Mode

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Change the GUID of the assembly   This fixes many MANY problems  I have found

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This work for me  First thing  it s seem that no matter what did you say to visual studio  the ide always look the file in  bin  for web app and off course in my case  So  even when i said to visual studio a specific path to load file  the ide keep looking for the wrong path  So i change in the  Build Configuration Manager the output type to  Release  previous i clean up the solution  even manually  so  when the file  dll was created then i moved manually to  bin  folder under the project solution folder  Hope this will be helpfull

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