[wix-devs] "ResolveWixReferences" task could not be loaded

Bob Arnson bob at firegiant.com
Mon Oct 31 10:37:03 PDT 2016


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From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Bunk, Bernd
Sent: Thursday, 27 October, 2016 12:06
To: wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org
Subject: [wix-devs] "ResolveWixReferences" task could not be loaded

Hello
I was told to report this issue to the mailing list to get support.
And I have to excuse if this is a duplicate of another discussion, but I just joined...


Since a few days (middle of October) I see this error in all my WiX projects:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\WiX\v3.x\wix2010.targets(735,5): error MSB4062: The "ResolveWixReferences" task could not be loaded from the assembly C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.10\bin\WixTasks.dll. Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Build.Utilities, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. Confirm that the declaration is correct, that the assembly and all its dependencies are available, and that the task contains a public class that implements Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITask.
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I see this problem on 3 different Windows 10 VMs, with VS2012 Up5, VS2013 Up5 and VS2015 Up3 all using WiX v3.10.1124.0. I switched to WiX v3.10.3.3007 (latest stable) but that did not fix the issue.
Interestingly all my VMs broke at the same time without me changing any source code or anything in Visual Studio. The only thing I did was the weekly Windows Update...

I have seen some older threads in here about that issue in different WiX versions (mainly in 3.11), but all were closed without a clear solution or workaround!
And I see this thread for a different project having exactly my issue since 7 days https://github.com/Microsoft/ProtocolTestFramework/issues/18<https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/url>)
Coincidence?

Can someone tell me what to change to fix or workaround this issue?

Regards,
Bernd

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