Extender Provider failed to return an Extender

Question

We upgraded from .NET 2.0 to .NET 3.5. A co-worker of mine is getting the following dialog when attempting to run the ASP .NET web project under the debugger in Visual Stud

Answer 1

For me none of the solutions above worked. I am using VS 2019. In my case, the repository had special characters in the name, so when cloned, the root folder had escaped characters in the name. The compiler could no longer match the file names. Updating the parent folder name and reopening VS fixed the issue.

The detailed error behind 'Extender Provider failed to return an Extender' was related to the inability to find the compiler targets in the path.