The element <#text> beneath element is unrecognized in Azure

Question

Have a big problem here. I can\'t open any type of project in Visual Studio. Even when I creating a new one I get the error:

the element <#text> be

Answer 1

This also happens with generic XML errors. In my case it was >> somewhere in the project file. Was a copy-paste error during conflict resolution that introduced it. Sadly, the output does not include the line that has the error, so try searching for << and >> in the file, to see if that is an issue somewhere.