FSLab template project gives an error when running - f#

FSLab template gives an error "The type provider 'RProvider.RProvider' reported an error: The type provider constructor has thrown an exception: Failed to start the R.NET server within 20 seconds"
I am using VS2015 and latest template from fslab.org
Anyone know how to work around this error? I get the same error when using VS2013 so I don't think it is related to VS.

RProvider.Server.exe is expecting FSharp.Core v4.3.0.0 but is bundled with 4.4, if you run RProvider.Server.exe you should see the exception. A work around is to add a RProvider.Server.exe.config file to the same directory with a binding redirect.

This is a pain. I am assuming you added FsLab from NuGet and tried building the project. As #kev says, the current stable version of FsLab (0.3.18) bundles the wrong version of FSharp.Core.dll. To see what #kev meant, go to the $YOUR_PROJECT_DIR/packages/RProvider.1.1.17/lib/net40 directory, open a command window there, and run RProvider.Server.exe to see the exception for yourself.
The cure is to create a binding redirect that would tell the runtime to look for the assembly version that is actually bundled (4.4.0.0) instead of the one it expects (4.3.0.0). To do this, create a file in the above mentioned directory, called RProvider.Server.exe.config, and paste the following into it...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<runtime>
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="FSharp.Core" publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a" culture="neutral" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="4.3.0.0" newVersion="4.4.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>
</assemblyBinding>
</runtime>
</configuration>
...and you should be good to go. To check, either run RProvider.Server.exe from the command line (it should give a different output to before) or rebuild your project to check that the error message stops appearing.
Obviously, this will hopefully just go away when the FsLab NuGet package gets sorted out.

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Cannot resolve dependency to assembly FSharp.Core 4.4.1.0 when using VS 2017

I have been developing in VS 2015 and F# 4.0 (4.4.0.0) for quite some time.
With the release of VS 2017, I want to open solutions in the newest VS for development work, but still for a while keep the projects as VS 2015, F# 4.0, .NET 4.5.2. The build server will also have to use VS 2015 for a while.
As far as I can remember, this kind of scenario has not been problematic in earlier VS version upgrades, but then I don't think I used F# at that time.
I opened the solution and tried to compile. I get this error in a C# application project. (There are other C# applications, and at least one references an F# library.)
Unknown build error, 'Cannot resolve dependency to assembly 'FSharp.Core, Version=4.4.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' because it has not been preloaded. When using the ReflectionOnly APIs, dependent assemblies must be pre-loaded or loaded on demand through the ReflectionOnlyAssemblyResolve event.
All my F# projects in the solution are 4.0 (4.4.0.0). I double checked.
Why is this happening?
I searched for "4.4.1.0", and discovered that the "obj" folder of the C# project had a .exe.config file that differed from the app.config. It had this extra information that is not in the app.config of the project.
<runtime>
...
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="FSharp.Core" publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a" culture="neutral" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-4.4.1.0" newVersion="4.4.1.0" />
</dependentAssembly>
</assemblyBinding>
Why is this appended automatically, and why only in this particular C# project?
I tried to copy that section to the app.config of the project, and change it to 4.4.0.0 in both places, but that didn't work. Also tried to use "4.4.1.0" as upper limit of old version, and have "4.4.0.0" as new version, but still didn't work. Same compiler error.
Then I removed that section, and I referenced FSharp.Core 4.4.0.0 in the C# project. That finally got rid of the compile error.
The I ran the program. It crashed with this exception.
Unhandled exception: Could not load file or assembly 'FSharp.Core, Version=4.4.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)
I reinserted the section with the redirect, and now the program runs fine.
Just to sum up, I added a reference to FSharp.Core 4.0, and the redirect looks like this
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-4.4.1.0" newVersion="4.4.0.0" />
With these modifications, the solution still works as expected also in VS 2015.
I had the same problem, maybe this is helpful for someone:
In my case, the cause was that some of my C# projects with transitive dependencies on FSharp.Core were referencing the runtime's assembly installed on my system directly, instead of using the NuGet package. I.e. the reference didn't have a hint path pointing to the NuGet packages folder, and thus was picking the assembly from C:\Program Files\FSharp\... from the F# SDK. I solved this by removing the reference and reinstalling the FSharp.Core NuGet package.
So this:
<Reference Include="FSharp.Core, Version=4.3.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a, processorArchitecture=MSIL" />
Turns into:
<Reference Include="FSharp.Core, Version=4.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
<HintPath>..\..\..\packages\FSharp.Core.4.5.2\lib\net45\FSharp.Core.dll</HintPath>
<Private>True</Private>
</Reference>
Check the assembly references of the assembly in the message. For me I had a reference to assembly X which had a reference to Y. Because Y was missing, I got this error. By referencing Y, the error was resolved for me.

F# How to setup FAKE project that can use FsUnit

I'm trying to setup a basic FAKE F# project that can run FsUnit but I cannot figure out how to solve the Method not found: 'Void FsUnit.TopLevelOperators.should(Microsoft.FSharp.Core.FSharpFunc`2<!!0,!!1>, !!0, System.Object)' errors.
I have read the following posts that seem to be related, but I'm apparently still not grokking it:
Main github issue
FSharp.Core packaging guidelines
FsUnit unable to test portable library (SO)
Another github issue
I have created a JunkTest library project with the following setup:
paket.dependencies
source https://www.nuget.org/api/v2
nuget FAKE
nuget FSharp.Core
nuget FsUnit
nuget NUnit
nuget NUnit.Console
paket.references
FSharp.Core
FsUnit
NUnit
JunkTest.fs
module JunkTest
open FsUnit
open NUnit.Framework
[<Test>]
let ``Example Test`` () =
1 |> should equal 1 // this does not work
//Assert.That(1, Is.EqualTo(1)) // this works (NUnit)
build.fsx (relevant part)
Target "Test" (fun _ ->
!! (buildDir + "JunkTest.dll")
|> NUnit3 (fun p ->
{p with OutputDir = "TestResults" }
)
)
Output
I see that FSharp.Core.dll is being copied from the local packages directory: Copying file from "c:\Users\dangets\code\exercism\fsharp\dgt\packages\FSharp.Core\lib\net40\FSharp.Core.dll" to "c:\Users\dangets\code\exercism\fsharp\dgt\build\FSharp.Core.dll".
And the nunit3-console execution: c:\Users\dangets\code\exercism\fsharp\dgt\packages\NUnit.ConsoleRunner\tools\nunit3-console.exe "--noheader" "--output=TestResults" "c:\Users\dangets\code\exercism\fsharp\dgt\build\JunkTest.dll"
I have tried to add a app.config file with the in the test project root directory with the following but it doesn't seem to solve the issue (NOTE I am not using Visual Studio - do I need to do anything special for the project to include the app.config file?):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<runtime>
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="FSharp.Core" publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a" culture="neutral" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-4.3.1.0" newVersion="4.3.1.0" />
</dependentAssembly>
</assemblyBinding>
</runtime>
</configuration>
Any and all help is appreciated.
EDIT: The solution was that I was not properly setting up the App.config file to get included in the build. All of the answers that said "just add this to your App.config file" didn't help me because VSCode doesn't add this to the fsproj file automatically.
The part that I added is:
<None Include="App.config" />
In the ItemGroup that contains the other <Compile Include=Foo.fs> lines.
This happens because of FSharp.Core version mismatch. See, your application references one version of FSharp.Core and FsUnit references another version. This means that the FSharpFunc<_,_> type is going to be different (coming from different assemblies) for you and FsUnit, which in turn means that the should function exported by FsUnit is not the same function that your code is looking for, because it has a parameter of a different type.
This is where the bindingRedirect comes in. You're absolutely correctly added it to app.config, but from your question about whether you're doing it correctly, I get a suspicion that you might not. The thing with app.config is, it's not actually the program configuration. Rather, it's the source code for program configuration. At compile time, this file gets copied to bin\Debug\Your.Project.dll.config, and only then it will get picked up at runtime. If you didn't add this file to the fsproj project file (which, I suspect, might be the case), then it's not getting copied to the right place during build, and thus isn't getting picked up at runtime.
Another reason for it still not working may be that you've specified an incorrect version of FSharp.Core in your app.config file. Which brings me to the next point.
Crafting that file by hand is a bit fragile: when you upgrade FSharp.Core to a new version (or Paket does it for you), you may forget to fix it in app.config and even if you don't, it's a bit of a hassle. But Paket can help you with that: if you add the redirects: on options to your paket.dependencies file, Paket will add the bindingRedirect cruft to your app.config automatically:
source https://www.nuget.org/api/v2
nuget FAKE
nuget FSharp.Core redirects: on
nuget FsUnit
nuget NUnit
nuget NUnit.Console
This sounds like an FSharp.Core version mismatch.
The NuGet package you're using ships with FSharp.Core 4.4 (not 4.3.1). I recommend modifying your binding redirect to use 4.4:
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-4.3.1.0" newVersion="4.4.0.0" />

Autofac 3.4 is missing, while 3.5 is called

Attempting to run the MVC 5.2 project, which is built successfuly, got the following error:
An exception of type 'System.IO.FileLoadException' occurred in
ProjectNamespace.WebUI.dll but was not handled in user code
Additional information: Could not load file or assembly 'Autofac,
Version=3.4.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=17863af14b0044da' or
one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition
does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT:
0x80131040)
Assembly manager loaded from:
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\clr.dll Running under
executable C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express\iisexpress.exe
--- A detailed error log follows.
=== Pre-bind state information === LOG: DisplayName = Autofac, Version=3.4.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=17863af14b0044da
(Fully-specified) LOG: Appbase = file:///C:/ProjectPath/WebUI/ LOG:
Initial PrivatePath = C:\ProjectPath\WebUI\bin Calling assembly :
Autofac.Integration.Mvc, Version=3.3.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=17863af14b0044da.
=== LOG: This bind starts in default load context. LOG: No application configuration file found. LOG: Using host configuration file:
C:\Users\me\Documents\IISExpress\config\aspnet.config LOG: Using
machine configuration file from
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\config\machine.config.
LOG: Post-policy reference: Autofac, Version=3.4.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=17863af14b0044da LOG: Attempting download of new URL
file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/Temporary
ASP.NET Files/root/5c8bedab/6a36492/Autofac.DLL. LOG: Attempting
download of new URL
file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/Temporary
ASP.NET Files/root/5c8bedab/6a36492/Autofac/Autofac.DLL. LOG:
Attempting download of new URL
file:///C:/ProjectPath/WebUI/bin/Autofac.DLL. WRN: Comparing the
assembly name resulted in the mismatch: Minor Version ERR: Failed to
complete setup of assembly (hr = 0x80131040). Probing terminated.
My web.config has the following settings:
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="Autofac" publicKeyToken="17863af14b0044da" culture="neutral" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-3.5.0.0" newVersion="3.5.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>
Spent hours trying to resolve it, but failed. Please help.
This problem has become quite common. It seems to come up when you have the Autofac, Autofac.Mvc5 and Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc>5.1.0 packages, even though Autofac.Mvc5 is stated to work with Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc(≥ 5.1.0 && < 6.0.0).
I suggest the classic solution of checking and adding the appropriate assembly binding redirects for autofac, not only in the project which references it but in projects referencing that project as well.
Another potential problem is having two entries for the
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
in your config, if you have your bindings in the second one move them to the first one. That fixed it for me in a situation where I was also encrypting some configuration settings and for some reason the binding redirects were not copied into the resulting config file.
I highly recommend the Assembly Binding Log Viewer, it helped me a lot in figuring out the issue, even though my final solution was a cowardly one, going to Autofac3.4.0.0 and Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc 5.1.0. I spent way too much time on fixing the problem.
Also, for those who are interested you can use the nuget manager to detect and fill in your assembly binding redirects: Get-Project -All | Add-BindingRedirect (from here). It might need some additions afterwards depending on your porjects and references but at least it's going to give you a clean slate to begin with.
Update
Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc 5.2.3 was released so I decided to try again. I updated every package involved in the "conflict" to the latest version (Autofac 3.5.2, Autofac.Mvc5 3.3.4, Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc 5.2.3). I updated the redirect bindings and it worked.

ASP.NET MVC MiniProfiler and EntityFramework 6 Initialization

I have a similar issue in that after loading MiniProfiler and MiniProfiler.EnitiyFramework6 I have this issue. MiniProfiler runs fine, but when I add to my Applcation_Start in Global.asax
MiniProfilerEF6.Initialize();
I get this:
An exception of type 'System.IO.FileLoadException' occurred in MiniProfiler.EntityFramework6.dll but was not handled in user code
Additional information: Could not load file or assembly 'MiniProfiler, Version=3.0.11.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b44f9351044011a3' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)
Turns out that this may be related to versions and ids.
If you install MiniProfiler.EntityFramework6 without installing the other packages, nuget will handle the dependencies, but it puts the wrong #s in the web.config here (make sure the version number is correct):
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="MiniProfiler" publicKeyToken="b44f9351044011a3" culture="neutral" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-3.2.0.157" newVersion="3.2.0.157" />
</dependentAssembly>
If you uninstall all the MiniProfiler packages and then install in this order:
MiniProfiler
MiniProfiler.MVC4
MiniProfiler.EF6
It seems to work ok.
For others having similar issues This is how I resolved
Please analyze what version of Entity Framework your application is using
PM> Get-Package
and then install
MiniProfiler.EF accordingly
Like in my case I installed
Install-Package MiniProfiler.EF5

Assembly binding redirect not working

I am trying to deploy a test web app on Azure, but when I run the Azure emulator on my local machine I get this error from the Azure emulator console attached to my WebRole:
System.TypeLoadException: Unable to load the role entry point due to the following exceptions:
-- System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Mvc, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)
File name: 'System.Web.Mvc, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'
=== Pre-bind state information ===
LOG: User = COLLAB\mirko.lugano
LOG: DisplayName = System.Web.Mvc, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35
(Fully-specified)
LOG: Appbase = file:///C:/Code/Application/<MyWebProject>.Azure/csx/Debug/roles/<MyWebProject>/approot/bin
LOG: Initial PrivatePath = C:\Code\Application\<MyWebProject>.Azure\csx\Debug\roles\<MyWebProject>\approot\bin
Calling assembly : ActionMailer.Net.Mvc, Version=0.7.4.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=e62db3114c02a1c2.
===
LOG: This bind starts in default load context.
LOG: Using application configuration file: C:\Code\Application\<MyWebProject>.Azure\csx\Debug\roles\<MyWebProject>\base\x64\WaIISHost.exe.Config
LOG: Using host configuration file:
LOG: Using machine configuration file from C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\config\machine.config.
LOG: Post-policy reference: System.Web.Mvc, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Code/Application/<MyWebProject>.Azure/csx/Debug/roles/<MyWebProject>/approot/bin/System.Web.Mvc.DLL.
WRN: Comparing the assembly name resulted in the mismatch: Major Version
ERR: Failed to complete setup of assembly (hr = 0x80131040). Probing terminated.
---> System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException: Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.
at System.Reflection.RuntimeModule.GetTypes(RuntimeModule module)
at System.Reflection.RuntimeModule.GetTypes()
at System.Reflection.Assembly.GetTypes()
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.RoleEnvironment.GetRoleEntryPoint(Assembly entryPointAssembly)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.RoleEnvironment.GetRoleEntryPoint(Assembly entryPointAssembly)
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.RoleEnvironment.CreateRoleEntryPoint(RoleType roleTypeEnum)
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.RoleEnvironment.InitializeRoleInternal(RoleType roleTypeEnum)
[fabric] Role state Unknown
Everything had been working fine as long as I had MVC3 installed on my local machine (the MVC3 assembly was in GAC), but since I removed MVC3 (Azure has no MVC installed), I am getting this error. My web app has MVC4 regularly included and that works fine. I had then thought about assembly binding redirection, and I noticed that in my web.config file I already have:
<runtime>
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
...
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Mvc" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" culture="neutral" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-4.0.0.0" newVersion="4.0.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>
...
</assemblyBinding>
</runtime>
which should be already correct, according to the documentation I have read around in internet. I have also tried setting the SpecificVersion property of my System.Web.Mvc.dll (version 4.0.0.0) to false but to no avail. Am I missing something? Shouldn't the calling assembly ActionMailer.Net.Mvc be automatically redirected to the correct version of the MVC assembly? Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Thanks.
In Azure WebRoles, by default (in Full IIS Mode) the RoleEntryPoint gets walled off from the rest of the WebRole, and runs in a different process.
A side effect of this is that your RoleEntryPoint will not have access to your web.config.
Azure SDK 1.3 -1.7 will look in WaIISHost.exe.config
Azure SDK 1.8+ will look in the WebRoleProjectName.dll.config.
With the newest change to the SDK, you should be able to place an app.config in your project and your role entry point should then have access to it.
You can read more about this in this Microsoft blog post or in this Stackoverflow post
Thank you Rune for the precious hint. That didn't solve my problem but it pointed me to the right direction, because I have the latest version of Azure SDK (1.8) and this WaIISHost.exe.config trick no longer works on the latest version of Azure. HERE is stated what I just said and the solution that worked for me, which is to rename the WaIISHost.exe.config file to MyWebAppName.dll.config (placing it at the same level of your web.config file in your web app and setting its Copy to output Directory property to 'Copy Always'. Of course this config file contains the binding redirect section as I described above.
As of today with the latest SDK a WebRoleProjectName.dll.config will be automatically generated for you with the contents of the Web.config and copied to the output directory.
However this won't be automatically be included in the deployment package! For this to happen you have to employ a kind of hackish solution: include the generated file in the project by selecting "show all files", then including just this file. The resulting change in the csproj should look like this (not, don't select it to be "Copy always"!):
<Content Include="bin\WebRoleProjectName.dll.config" />

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