Error when uploading UWP app to Windows Store: Failed to merge PRI file \Resources_split.scale-100.pri

Question

I am uploading a latest version of my app to the Windows store but my app is throwing the error:

Package acceptance validation error: We encountered a

Answer 1

One workaround I have found is to get rid of the ARM configuration.

So you build with just x86|x64 instead of x86|x64|ARM obviously this doesn't help if you need to build for ARM

But I think this is a bug in a recent update to MsBuild which you can see reported by other people here: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/107928/get-merge-failure-for-shared-merged-pri-file-0x800.html?