Can't load project after pulling: “Expected 'ENCODING' but found 'utf-8'.”

Question

After pulling the project (WPF application) from git,

I get this error:

Answer 1

This forum really helped me. Thank you very much. In my case my team mate merged the code and in .csproj there was end tag missing for we had >. I opened .csproj in visual studio. Edited end tag to /> and saved the file and reloaded the project and it was fine.