Extender Provider failed to return an Extender
C#asp.net.Net 3.5C# Problem Overview
We upgraded from .NET 2.0 to .NET 3.5. A co-worker of mine is getting the following dialog when attempting to run the ASP .NET web project under the debugger in Visual Studio 2008. He can build fine, but he can't debug (hence, it's a run-time issue):
Microsoft Visual Studio
"The Extender Provider failed to return an Extender for this object. Please correct before proceeding. (You might rename the current web.config and add a new one.)"
OK
Searching on this error provided one hit that is in French, but Google translated, and the dude deleted his web.config. Well, my co-worker has a web.config.
Thanks!
C# Solutions
Solution 1 - C#
I encountered the
The Extender Provider failed to return an Extender for this object.
message in a winforms designer window.
I'm aware that your question is about ASP.Net 3.5, but in my case I resolved it by:
- Closing the solution in Visual Studio
- Deleting the obj and bin directories from the problematic project.
When I reopened the solution the error no longer occurred in the designer.
UPDATE:
VS 2019, resolution still relevant
Solution 2 - C#
I solved it by just closing Visual Studio and opening it again. I was using Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition and didn't have to delete those folders.
Solution 3 - C#
In my case run Visual Studio as administrator helped. My project uses local IIS and Studio needs Admin permissions to manage IIS.
Solution 4 - C#
None of the solutions above worked in VS2019 for me. What did work was deleting the ProjectName.csproj.user file and then reloading the project.
Solution 5 - C#
In Visual Studio 2019 I had several webservices in a solution failing to load with this error. In my case the error was caused because I had changed the port numbers in IIS for those web services meaning the
Solution 6 - C#
I had this problem because a project used IIS and HTTPS, there was no https binding on the IIS, adding a HTTPS binding on the default website fixed the problem.
Solution 7 - C#
VS2019 - restarting Visual Studio did the trick.
Solution 8 - C#
In VSTO, you can't use the designer while debugging another VSTO app.
For example, if another VSTO debugging session is running and you try to invoke the Excel Designer on a different project, you'll get "The Extender Provider failed to return an Extender for this object". Stop debugging to free up the Designer.
Solution 9 - C#
I had this issue in Visual Studio 2015, the error kept persisting even after cleaning the project, restarting visual studio and restarting my pc.
What resolved it for me, was right-clicking the xaml file and choosing Open with... > XML Editor. It opened the file and the error didn't occur after that.
Solution 10 - C#
For me none of the solutions above worked. I am using VS 2019. In my case, the repository had special characters in the name, so when cloned, the root folder had escaped characters in the name. The compiler could no longer match the file names. Updating the parent folder name and reopening VS fixed the issue.
The detailed error behind 'Extender Provider failed to return an Extender' was related to the inability to find the compiler targets in the path.
Solution 11 - C#
In my case I had deleted 'SSL' from the VS2017 C# project properties debug configuration build tab Conditional compilation symbols. Putting it back resolved the error. Apparently SSL require in Debug configuration (but not release).
Solution 12 - C#
I was also facing the same issue on the new branch checkout in VS 2019. I just did some changes in web.config and then did undo. it's weird but worked.