The “EnsureBindingRedirects” task failed unexpectedly. System.Xml.XmlException: An XML comment cannot contain '--'

Question

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State

Error       The "EnsureBindingRedirects" task failed unexpectedly. 
System.Xml.XmlException: An XML comment cannot contain '--', and '-' cannot be the last character. Line 261, position 7.

while building the solution above error is occurring in the project file. i have checked the project file but no any comments present at that file.

Answer 1

Usually occurs when you merge your branch and comments in your web.config are messed up. Just make sure that the config file is a valid XML file and you are sorted.

In my case, it added comment character sequence <!-- without the closing part -->.