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Posted on by Elangamban 445

Hi,

I'm receiving an error in visual studio community 2013 while trying to connect to crm online.

Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.windows.design.host, version =4.0.0.0,

Culture=neutral, PublicKey Token=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies.

The system cannot find.

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    Prasanna Lakshmi Profile Picture
    Prasanna Lakshmi on at
    RE: Could not load file or assemble

    Hi Elangamban,

    I have you tried below steps :

    1 )community.dynamics.com/.../114939

    --> As VS2013 uses Microsoft.Windows.Design.Host v4.2 you need to add these lines to devenv.exe.config

    <dependentAssembly>

    <assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.Windows.Design.Host" publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a" culture="neutral" />

    <bindingRedirect oldVersion="4.0.0.0-4.1.0.0" newVersion="4.2.0.0" />

    </dependentAssembly>

    --> Copy CRM MSBuild to C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\CRM

    Or

    2) stackoverflow.com/.../could-not-load-file-or-assembly-microsoft-windows-design-host

    Extract the contents of CrmDeveloperToolsVS12_Installer.msi

    1.Open a Command Prompt as Administrator

    2.Navigate to: sdk\Tools\DeveloperToolkit\

    3.Run: msiexec /a CrmDeveloperToolsVS12_Installer.msi /qb TARGETDIR=<EXTRACTFOLDER>

    Be sure to copy the contents of the CRM MSBUILD folder you extracted from the msi package to: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\CRM

    Then you have to edit C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe.config and add the following lines:

    <dependentAssembly>

    <assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.Windows.Design.Host" publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a" culture="neutral" />

    <bindingRedirect oldVersion="4.0.0.0-4.1.0.0" newVersion="4.2.0.0" />

    </dependentAssembly>

    Please check these steps which might resolve the issue.

    Regards,

    Prasanna Lakshmi.T.J

  • Elangamban Profile Picture
    Elangamban 445 on at
    RE: Could not load file or assemble

    Wow!! Thank you Prasanna Lakshmi, it worked.

    I added the following to devenv.exe.config (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe.config)

    <dependentAssembly>

    <assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.Windows.Design.Host" publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a" culture="neutral" />

    <bindingRedirect oldVersion="4.0.0.0-4.1.0.0" newVersion="4.2.0.0" />

    </dependentAssembly>

    Thanks.

  • Elangamban Profile Picture
    Elangamban 445 on at
    RE: Could not load file or assemble

    I've also another query.

    When I typed  'using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk' its showing an error of The type or namespace name 'XRM' does not exist in the namespace microsoft are you missing an assembly reference.

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