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Missing System.Text.Encoding.CodePages reference

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Bug Report

Description

Missing reference to System.Text.Encoding.CodePages in latest (0.10.0) version

Steps to Reproduce

Reference AngleSharp NuGet package in your project
Use AngleSharp

class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var parser = new HtmlParser();
            var result = parser.ParseDocument("<html></html>");
        }
    }

Result: Exception

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'AngleSharp.Configuration' threw an exception. ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not lo
ad file or assembly 'System.Text.Encoding.CodePages, Version=4.1.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'. The system cannot find the file specified.

Expected behavior: AngleSharp does not throw initialization exception

Actual behavior: Exception thrown.

Environment details: .netcore console app

Possible Solution

Manually adding reference to mentioned package fixes the issue

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:29 (13 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

4reactions

jgrandydevcommented, Feb 16, 2019

@FlorianRappl I was trying to piggy-back on this issue to avoid opening a new.

W10, VS17, .NET Framework 4.7.2 project

AngleSharp 0.11.0.0 installed via NuGet Package Manager

Yes it installs dependency System.Text.Encoding.CodePages v4.5.0 but this does not resolve issue :

class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var parser = new HtmlParser();
            var result = parser.ParseDocument("<html></html>");
        }
    }

Could not load file or assembly ‘System.Text.Encoding.CodePages, Version=4.1.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

If I manually update to System.Text.Encoding.CodePages v4.5.1 it does not help.

3reactions

reevevcommented, Aug 26, 2020

I think we’ve confirmed this is definitely not an AngleSharp issue. For anyone with the sae issue, what we’ve found is the binding redirect for System.Text.Encoding.CodePages is being ignored.

In environments that work fusion logs clearly show the binding redirect being picked up:

LOG: Redirect found in application configuration file: 4.1.1.0 redirected to 4.1.3.0. LOG: Post-policy reference: System.Text.Encoding.CodePages, Version=4.1.3.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a

In the one environment where the error occurs, these lines are missing from the fusion logs.

We don’t have a solution yet as other binding redirects are working from the applications configuration as expected.

I’ll put this question elsewhere now to try and resolve.

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