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Starting a project in Visual Studio. Getting error:
|Designer load encountered an error. Please ensure that the project can be built
successfully|Designer load encountered an error. Please ensure that the project can be built
successfully|
| -------- | -------- |
|Designer load encountered an error. Please ensure that the project can be built
successfully Designer load encountered an error. Please ensure that the project can be built successfully.|
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Hi @Sandy Gordon,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!
What is your project type and the version of Visual Studio? Could you create a new project and check if it occurs in specific project?
You can try the following workarounds:
Sincerely,
Anna
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I got this same error after upgrade of a .NET Framework 4.8.1 app to .NET 9.0. I used the Upgrade feature of Visual Studio. Yes, my software is all up-to-date!
It is frustrating that Visual Studio doesn't provide an error message other than "Designer load encountered an error. Please ensure that the project can be built successfully. " It doesn't even provide the line number where the error occurred.