How to fix “Root element is missing.” when doing a Visual Studio (VS) Build?

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How to fix \"Root element is missing.\" when doing a Visual Studio (VS) Build?

Any idea what file I should look at in my solution?

Actually, I am getting thi

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Hey, I have the same issue on Mac working on a Cocoa C# solution. (But I solved it !)

It always say that the root element is missing so it cannot load my C# project file.

I have the 2017 Visual Studio Mac Community Edition. I finally managed to find a solution after several hours (painful!).

My solution is because the frameworks related to the Visual Studio are old or broken. I found this because I tried to create a new Mac solution by Cocoa and it said "failed to save the solution". Then, I tried to create an Android Solution and it is working fine. Go to your "Finder" and "Go" -> "Go to a Folder" then go to the "Library/Frameworks". I have deleted mono.framework and frameworks related to Xamarin because I believe these Xamarin frameworks are broken.

Then, uninstalled the Visual Studio and reinstalled it. Now everything works fine!