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Ginandi
Ginandi

Reputation: 853

New Windows Phone 8 app fails to compile - missing assembly XamlServicesWP

I have recently installed the Windows Phone 8 SDK on my machine. I tried creating a new Windows Phone Silverlight application but it always fails to build. This is the error I am getting:

The "CompileXaml" task failed unexpectedly. System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'XamlServicesWP, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. File name: 'XamlServicesWP, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'

When I installed the SDK it finished with a warning saying that the event log file is full, though I really doubt this is the issue.

I am using Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate on Windows 8.1.

Is this a known issue?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2316

Answers (2)

Mahesh Mahindrakar
Mahesh Mahindrakar

Reputation: 173

Installing Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 solved my problem. Somehow VS 2013 was taking wrong MSBuild version.

Upvotes: 1

Ginandi
Ginandi

Reputation: 853

I finally solved it.

What happened was that I started by (accidentally) installing SDK for WP8.1, and then I removed it. For some reason, that seemed to be the problem - when I reinstalled it the problem went away.

Don't know what's the cause, but this is probably an MS bug.

Upvotes: 0

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