Generation of designer file failed: Could not load file or assembly

Question

I have an ASP.NET web application project which references another project called ModusCore (or Modus.Core). We\'ve had a variety of controls that use ModusCore up until now wi

Answer 1

Copying the missing assemblies into the Visual Studio\Common7\IDE\Public Assemblies directory gave me more specific error messages than 'could not load file or assembly'. From here I commented out some problematic parts of the page, deleted the .designer.cs file and chose "Convert to Web Application" from the right-click context menu of the .ascx file.