"Assembly Manifest" error in visual studio

Question

I've been facing a problem recently with visual studio,

Every time i debug a program it says:

"error while trying to run project: cold not load file

or assembly 'console application1' or one of it's dependencies. the module was expected to

contain an assembly manifest."

even if the project is blank like this

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

    namespace ConsoleApplication4
    {
        class Program
        {
            static void Main(string[] args)
            {
            }
        }
    }

I've tried to clean solution and reinstall vs2010 but nothing works.

Any of the things in this thread help? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12226676/the-module-was-expected-to-contain-an-assembly-manifest — Matthew Watson, Jun 18 '14 at 12:48
[This question][1] and [this question][2] seemed to have some possible solutions that may help. [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12135925/error-while-trying-to-run-projectthe-module-was-expected-to-contain-an-assembly [2]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12226676/the-module-was-expected-to-contain-an-assembly-manifest?rq=1 — mlw4428, Jun 18 '14 at 12:51
I would recommend a different title since "Hard proplem to solve in visual studio" doesn't say anything. — EKrueger, Jun 18 '14 at 12:52
@CailinP sorry callin but i wasn't able to solve it i just knew what was the proplem from fuslogvw report — A pass by, Jul 02 '14 at 13:18

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

The error "The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest" usually refers to a low level assembly loading issue. The Common Language Runtime has found a file with the correct name, but when the assembly is attempted to be loaded it doesn't contain the right manifest (which has information pertaining to the assembly).

This question contains information on how to test and resolve this issue.

"Assembly Manifest" error in visual studio

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