'C# Predefined type 'System.Object' is not defined or imported

In .NET core project, I changed the all projects name than after reloading all project that time many errors were showing approx 3225. And mainly all errors are related to system namespace like

  • System.Object not defined or imported
  • System.Boolean not defined or imported
  • Task does not exist
  • namespace ArgumentNullException could not be found

How do I resolve all those errors?

c++sharp.netvisual-studio.net-coreibm-doorsoslc


Solution 1:[1]

I was hitting this in VS Code. In Windows Terminal, dotnet build and dotnet run ran fine, but I was getting the errors in VS Code. The delete/restore/reopen answer did not fix it.

It seems it was an issue where I had an outdated version of Visual Studio confusing the C#/OmniSharp extension in VS Code.

The OmniSharp log included something like this:

[info]: OmniSharp.MSBuild.Discovery.MSBuildLocator
        Located 2 MSBuild instance(s)
            1: Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 16.8.30907.101 16.8.3 - "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin"
            2: StandAlone 17.0.0 - "c:\Users\foo\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-dotnettools.csharp-1.23.16\.omnisharp\1.37.16\.msbuild\Current\Bin"
[info]: OmniSharp.MSBuild.Discovery.MSBuildLocator
        Registered MSBuild instance: Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 16.8.30907.101 16.8.3 - "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin"

That version of Visual Studio 2019 did not have the .NET 6.0 SDK installed, and I couldn't find it in the VS Installer.

So I installed Visual Studio 2022 and the .NET 6.0 SDK as part of that install. Now my log looks like this:

[info]: OmniSharp.MSBuild.Discovery.MSBuildLocator
        Located 3 MSBuild instance(s)
            1: Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 17.0.31912.275 17.0.0 - "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin"
            2: Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 16.8.30907.101 16.8.3 - "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin"
            3: StandAlone 17.0.0 - "c:\Users\foo\.vscode-insiders\extensions\ms-dotnettools.csharp-1.23.16\.omnisharp\1.37.16\.msbuild\Current\Bin"
[info]: OmniSharp.MSBuild.Discovery.MSBuildLocator
        Registered MSBuild instance: Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 17.0.31912.275 17.0.0 - "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin"

And the errors are gone!

Solution 2:[2]

This can also be caused by a circular dependency between projects in a solution.

error MSB4006: There is a circular dependency in the target dependency graph involving target "_GenerateRestoreProjectPathWalk"

Solution 3:[3]

Just like citelao I've got this issue in VS code when created new .NET 6.0 isolated AZ Function using wizard.
In OmniSharp logs I had about the same.

Just in case, in order to see the omni sharp logs, you have to open 'output' panel, and there on the right click on a drop-down: enter image description here

I did not want to install VS 2022 as my target was to work in VS code for this project. I found the answer here: omnisharp-roslyn #2247

Basically the solution was to add omnisharp.json file in the project root with the following contents:

{
  "msbuild": {
  "useBundledOnly": true
  }
}

After that I've closed VS Code, deleted bin and obj folders and started VS Code back.

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Solution Source
Solution 1
Solution 2 GeorgeP
Solution 3 Dmitry Mefed

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