the name <…> does not exist in the namespace clr-namespace <…>

Question

I have a small WPF application which used to compile just fine but is not anymore. I can\'t really say at which point it stopped building. It just worked fine one day, and t

Answer 1

What I found that helped (especially if this error occurs in App.xaml) is to comment out the reference(s) that gives you trouble, rebuild, then uncomment. I think what this does is allows the entire project to actually build instead of stopping the build at the error.

From what I can gather, the app is trying to build the files in a certain order, so when App.xaml or presumably any other class file errors in a reference, the file that is causing the error hasn't been compiled correctly, hence why it doesn't find the file in that namespace.