Circular file references not allowed

Question

I am having a problem in building my solution in VS2008. Normally, it compiles fine in the environment. Sometimes, it fails with:

/xxx_WEB/secure/CMSManagedT         


        

Answer 1

Reposted from:

http://ellisweb.net/2009/12/fixing-the-circular-file-references-are-not-allowed-error-in-asp-net/

If you have the following setup: /folder1/Control1.ascx > References Control2 /folder2/Control2.ascx > References Control3 /folder1/Control3.ascx This means that the folder1 dll will reference the folder2 dll which will again reference the folder1 dll, causing a “circular file reference”.

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This helped me out today; I had a master page in the root referencing a master page in a folder, which referenced a different page in the root. Shuffling which pages were in which folders worked like a charm.