Startup Uri Not Working - Cannot locate recource ‘mainwindow.xaml’

January 07, 2015

I recently re-visited this project, and found that, amongst other things, it would no longer run up. Clearly something had changed, and it was a while until I realised what. The error I was getting was this:

The App.Xaml looked like this:




<Application x:Class="TFSUtils.App"
             xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
             xmlns:vm="clr-namespace:TFSUtils.ViewModel"
             xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
             xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
             StartupUri="MainWindow.xaml"
             mc:Ignorable="d">

Solution

I finally realised that I must have copied the MainWindow.Xaml into the Views folder as a last minute cleanup. The fix was very simple:




<Application x:Class="TFSUtils.App"
             xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
             xmlns:vm="clr-namespace:TFSUtils.ViewModel"
             xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
             xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
             StartupUri="View/MainWindow.xaml"
             mc:Ignorable="d">

Conclusion

So, there you go: long untouched and untested code just spontaneously breaks! Magic.