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Error when loading one particular solution “Designtime build failed for project”
Apr 25th, 2021 at 10:10pm
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I wonder if anyone can help, as I have tried many things but I just cant solve this problem?

When I start one of my projects within Visual Studio / Visual Micro, the Output window displays a list of errors (all the same) concerning "traceddesigntime", please see image.

The project has different builds for different versions and they display the same errors.

All other projects I load, work properly and do not have this error.

The problem it causes, is that I can’t navigate to functions for example from the drop down, as the list is either empty, or it contains all of the functions from the master branch and not a sub branch.  Cry
  
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Re: Error when loading one particular solution “Designtime build failed for project”
Reply #1 - Apr 25th, 2021 at 10:16pm
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Is the vMicro menu available when the project is open? Can you click build using the vMicro menu?
  
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Reply #2 - Apr 25th, 2021 at 10:20pm
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Thanks for your reply.

Yes, all Visual Micro options / menus are running and accessible. I can choose to build, upload and set options including debug.
  
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Reply #3 - Apr 25th, 2021 at 10:57pm
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Okay, please email your [project name].vcxproj to the email address in the yellow box above. This sounds like VS or a plugin has added something to the vcxproj that is causing some internal VS issues.

tip: This is a VS error unrelated to Visual Micro, therefore google results will also probably explain the problem.
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Reply #4 - Apr 27th, 2021 at 5:05am
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Hi Tim,

Thanks for your reply, file has been emailed.

I have googled this up, down left and right as I like to find solutions myself, but everything I read is that this was fixed in an earlier patch.

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Reply #5 - Apr 27th, 2021 at 12:48pm
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Thanks for the file. It doesn't show anything much. I think a zip of the project folder might help.

I found this arcticle, if you scroll down to the "Intellsense Build" section it shows how to switch on logging. However, sending your solution and other code files might avoid the need for you to follow this guide.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/configuring-c-intellisense-and-browsing/

One other thought would be to close vs, then delete the .vs folder from below your project and then reopen. Maybe the intellisense db is corrupt that would resolve.
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Pleasure. I have emailed the folder entirely as a Zip. I also tried deleting the .vs folder but it didnt make any difference.

  
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Reply #7 - Apr 27th, 2021 at 2:34pm
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I can't reproduce and suspect a combinaton of factors. Please confirm/try the following:-

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Please confirm exact visual studio version from help>about and also use the Diagnostics button to copy/paste the list of installed extensions to here.

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I see a log that says one of you shared libraries (megaavr/softwareserial) can not be found. It might be worth removing the shared projects from the solution. They can always be re-added later if you want to work with the library code.

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At some point in time you might have opened the project in VS folder view as opposed to opening the solution. It should do any harm that the CppProperties.json remains from that, the CppProperties.json can be deleted from your project folder it is not used.

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Reply #8 - Apr 27th, 2021 at 9:20pm
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Hi,

1) Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2019 - Version 16.9.4

Details as follows:

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2019
Version 16.9.4
VisualStudio.16.Release/16.9.4+31205.134
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.8.04084

Installed Version: Professional

Visual C++ 2019   00435-60000-00000-AA147
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ASP.NET and Web Tools 2019   16.9.693.2781
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ASP.NET Core Razor Language Services   16.1.0.2112521+5741df381174d72f08e3632bb99f52e8635b6a1a
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ASP.NET Web Frameworks and Tools 2019   16.9.693.2781
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Azure App Service Tools v3.0.0   16.9.693.2781
Azure App Service Tools v3.0.0

Azure Functions and Web Jobs Tools   16.9.693.2781
Azure Functions and Web Jobs Tools

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Common Azure Tools   1.10
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Microsoft Azure Tools   2.9
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2) I did remove the library, so the errors do not appear now but it didnt solve this problem.

3) Thank you, I have removed the file in question.

Regards,

Christopher
  
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