XamlParseException after deploying WPF project

Question

I have been trying to deploy my WPF app, I created a Setup Project using the Setup Wizard.The only Project Output I added was Primary. After building this and installing the

Answer 1

Cleaning and rebuilding the project was not effective for me.

You can try to delete bin Directory then rebuild, I solved my problem by this way.

Answer 2

I ran into this when working with multiple dlls running inside an application and those dlls have differing versions of the same dependency loaded.

We normally merge the dlls during our release build to prevent this issue, but we see it if we are testing more then one set of unmerged dlls during development cycle.

The solution it to only test one set of unmerged dlls, using merged release versions for the other dlls that are not being tested, or to ensure that the dependent dll is the same version for both sets.

Answer 3

This is normally caused by not having all dependencies copied to the output. As you say the error message is not very helpful, but I would check that your application has all the necessary dependencies available to resolve the parsed types.

Normally it is enough to set Copy Local to true for referenced assemblies, but I've experienced some cases where references themselves reference assemblies, so it can be necessary to explicitly add those references as well.

Update:

Important addition by @BENN1TH.

If you want to see what an assembly is necessary:

Was getting the same type of issue once i had published and installed my project (was working fine in debug VS2013 Desktop, no errors etc) but used the advice in from http://geekswithblogs.net/lbugnion/archive/2007/03/14/108728.aspx and wham! installed project was working..

try

{
  InitializeComponent();
}
catch ( Exception ex )
{
  // Log error (including InnerExceptions!)
  // Handle exception
}

Answer 4

I have got this problem. This problem occurs due to Microsoft.Expression.Drawing.dll please download dll and add reference.