Could not load file or assembly NewtonSoft.Json

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Hello,

When trying to build my project in Visual Studio I get the error “Could not load file or assembly ‘Newtonsoft.Json, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.”

I checked in the Nuget package manager and I do have a version of Newtonsoft.Json but with version 13.0.1 and I don’t know how I can install 9.0.0.0 and/or if it is even necessary.

Tool: Visual Studio
Version: 5.8.8
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Hey @Asista ,

Can you let me know what version of VS you are running and what version of PS you are trying to compile for?

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Hey @adam,

I’m on Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 Enterprise version 16.9.3.
I’m trying to compile for the default in executable properties which should be powershell 5.

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Ok. Strange. I don’t know exactly why this is happening for you but not in my test environments but I’m going to remove the depedency on NewtonSoft since i always seems to cause issues like this.

Hang tight. If you need to roll back to the previous version, you can grab it from our downloads page: Downloads - Ironman Software

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5.8.9 is headed to the marketplace with this fix. Please let me know if you still have the problem after upgrade.

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Hello @adam,

I’ve just updated to version 5.8.9 but I’m still getting the same error on build.

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Hmmm bummer. I thought I completely removed that dependency. I might need some more info but let me poke around to see what else could cause this.

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I was having the same issue on 5.8.10 on Visual Studios 2019 Community and I had to roll back to PowerShellTools.5.8.6 to get it building projects again.

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I’ve been able to reproduce and fix this issue. A new build should be available on the Marketplace in about an hour.

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Hi @adam,

I’ve updated to 5.8.11 and I am now getting the following error on build.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\MSBuild\PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio\PowerShellProTools.targets(5,5): error : Failed to run ‘System.Linq.Enumerable+WhereEnumerableIterator`1[System.Management.Automation.Language.CommandAst]’

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Can you let me know which modules you are importing in the script you are trying to compile?

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I’m importing the modules AzureAD, IntuneWin32App en 7Zip4Powershell

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Now the compile is working, so no idea why it didn’t work yesterday

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