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VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly
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2/11/2010 9:18 AM |
As you're moving all of your Silverlight solutions into Visual Studio 2010, you might encounter an error on compile like so:
System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\dev\Silverlight\xxx\yyy.dll' or one of its dependencies. Operation is not supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131515) File name: 'file:///C:\dev\Silverlight\xxx\yyy.dll' ---> System.NotSupportedException: An attempt was made to load an assembly from a network location which would have caused the assembly to be sandboxed in previous versions of the .NET Framework. This release of the .NET Framework does not enable CAS policy by default, so this load may be dangerous. If this load is not intended to sandbox the assembly, please enable the loadFromRemoteSources switch. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=155569 for more information.
This error is due to referencing one or more assemblies that were downloaded from the web and perhaps extracted from a ZIP file - things such as third party controls. These assembly files have a "block" flag set on them for security.
There are a couple of ways around this:
- To do a one time fix for the assemblies that are firing this error, find the assembly in Windows Explorer and right-click and select Properties. Click the "Unblock" button at the bottom right of the "General" tab.
- UPDATE 2/11/2010: I just learned from Mark Boulter (Microsoft) that the following tweak might not be a good idea, so use at your own risk. In fact, any tweaks to devenv.exe.config are not a good idea. Anyway, I'll leave this info up in case anyone is feeling frisky.
You can also permanently disable this security check in Visual Studio 2010. Open the VS2010 config file at this location:
%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe.config
...and add the following under the <CONFIGURATION> element:
<runtime> <loadFromRemoteSources enabled="true" /> </runtime>
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Re: VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly
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By Anonymous on
2/18/2010 8:51 PM
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Thank you. I used option 1 and that fixed my problem
Cris Perry
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Re: VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly
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By Anonymous on
3/15/2010 4:26 PM
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Thanks for this suggestion. I too used Option 1 and it worked for me as well.
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Re: VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly
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By Anonymous on
4/6/2010 5:36 AM
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thx - this saved me hours!
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Re: VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly
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By Anonymous on
5/4/2010 9:10 AM
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Thx a lot - saved me hours
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Re: VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly
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By Anonymous on
5/14/2010 11:05 AM
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I was unable to find the "Unblock" button. I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate. I did step 2 for now. Any idea how to get the "Unblock" button to appear? I'm right clicking on the dll that the error says it can't load and selecting Properties.
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Re: VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly
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By Anonymous on
5/19/2010 5:29 AM
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thanks - I got away with that error
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Re: VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly
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By Anonymous on
6/4/2010 5:47 AM
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Hey Andy, Thank you very much dear...
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Re: VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly
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By Anonymous on
7/2/2010 2:18 PM
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Got same error, but not due to locked dlls. I was simply trying to build a project residing entirely on a network drive. The only work-around that worked was to: "disable the ValidateXaml task for your Silverlight app by editing the project file and changing the value of the element to false". Maybe Andy can add it as #3 solution.
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Re: VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly
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By Anonymous on
7/19/2010 3:07 PM
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Thanks, editing the project file and disabling the ValidateXaml key did the trick
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Re: VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly
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By Anonymous on
7/23/2010 3:14 AM
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After I do that I am still getting a broken dll in the References folder of PhysicsBehaviors.Silverlight.dll in the PhysicsBehaviors.Design.Silverlight. Where can I download that dll?
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Re: VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly
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By Anonymous on
8/30/2010 4:02 AM
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opened the project from network share \\mycomp1\project1\test.sln FAILED
opened the project from local drive D:\project1\test.sln PASSED
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Re: VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly
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By Anonymous on
9/24/2010 2:50 AM
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Option1 worked.Thanks a lot :)
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Re: VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly
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By Anonymous on
8/10/2011 11:43 PM
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Option #1 did not resolve the problem for me. How does one identify any assembly that needs to be unblocked. I am aware that I can unblock an assembly before installation, but what about afterwards? What do we do then if option #1 fails to resolve the error?
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