Visual Studio 2008 project not building after beign moved to a new machine

Question

I moved one of my VS projects (C#) from one machine to another (SVN checkout) and when I'm trying to build it there I'm getting the following error:

Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions 
property for more information.

That doesn't give too much information about the nature of the problem. There were no problems building the same checkout on other machines. All of the machines I'm building this project are using the same version of VS 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5SP1. Can anyone give me some clues where should I look for the problem?

Answer 1

You probably have a missing reference. See this post for more information.

Answer 2

Have you checked the references? I had all kinds of these problems before I started using continuous integration.

Other thing is that the build order of the projects is somehow messed up. Try building projects one by one.

Answer 3

Have you installed MVC/ Silverlight or any other "additional" bits you are using?

It seems a project type is missing.

Kindness,

Dan

Answer 4

Have you done somehting to your build files (*.csproj etc)? Could be that there's a target that depends on some DLL that's missing.

Answer 5

I'd enable the fusion log (part of the .Net SDK), then use the viewer to check for binding problems - may even be that VS needs repairing...

Assembly Binding Log Viewer