Hi Friends,
Today I faced another weird problem with my project while building it in Visual Studio 2008.
The error was saying:
Files has invalid value “���.
Clicking on it was opening no any reference or file to understand where exactly the error is.
I searched on net and found few causes of this, they might be:
1. It may be due to SVN file merge or conflict.
2. May be your project metadafile is corrupted.
3. Or project’s file list of reference is corrupted.
4. I’m not sure if there is anything else
To solve this, first of all check your project’s solution file and .suo file for any of illegal characters in it. If it’s a problem caused by SVN merge/conflict you may find “<<<<< .mine” within it in text editor. Just try to fix it or get correct copy from SVN that will do.
If the file containing reference of files/dlls itself corrupted, Just search for files *.FileListAbsolute.txt from root folder of your project and check all files for any illegal characters in it first. Try to fix it manually or you can get a correct copy from SVN if available or just delete that file and VS will manage to create a new one for you and it will work again.
So that is my finding, wish if it could help you too.
Thanks,
Vipul