Originally posted by @Kevin-Andrew in #50257 (comment)
I go this error today. Coincidentally enough, it also seemed to appear right after I opened a file from the Solution Explorer, after just having opened a very large solution (147 projects with over 6,500 files). So Visual Studio was still very busy doing a lot of background work.
Here is the stack trace:
StreamJsonRpc.RemoteInvocationException: The project already transitively references the target project.
at StreamJsonRpc.JsonRpc.<InvokeCoreAsync>d__139`1.MoveNext()
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at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ValidateEnd(Task task)
at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Remote.BrokeredServiceConnection`1.<TryInvokeAsync>d__16.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Telemetry.WindowsErrorReporting.WatsonReport.GetClrWatsonExceptionInfo(Exception exceptionObject)
RPC server exception:
System.InvalidOperationException: The project already transitively references the target project.
at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Solution.CheckCircularProjectReferences(ProjectId projectId, IReadOnlyCollection`1 projectReferences)
at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Solution.WithProjectReferences(ProjectId projectId, IEnumerable`1 projectReferences)
at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Project.WithProjectReferences(IEnumerable`1 projectReferences)
at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Remote.RemoteWorkspace.SolutionCreator.<UpdateProjectAsync>d__10.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Remote.RemoteWorkspace.SolutionCreator.<UpdateProjectsAsync>d__8.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Remote.RemoteWorkspace.SolutionCreator.<UpdateProjectsAsync>d__7.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Remote.RemoteWorkspace.SolutionCreator.<CreateSolutionAsync>d__6.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Telemetry.WindowsErrorReporting.WatsonReport.GetClrWatsonExceptionInfo(Exception exceptionObject)
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Remote.RemoteWorkspace.<CreateSolution_NoLockAsync>d__10.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Remote.RemoteWorkspace.<UpdatePrimaryBranchSolutionAsync>d__9.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Remote.RemoteAssetSynchronizationService.<>c__DisplayClass2_0.<<SynchronizePrimaryWorkspaceAsync>b__0>d.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Remote.BrokeredServiceBase.<RunServiceImplAsync>d__14.MoveNext()
Originally posted by @Kevin-Andrew in #50257 (comment)
I go this error today. Coincidentally enough, it also seemed to appear right after I opened a file from the Solution Explorer, after just having opened a very large solution (147 projects with over 6,500 files). So Visual Studio was still very busy doing a lot of background work.
Here is the stack trace: