Thanks for submitting the report. I've managed to reproduce this issue.
The root of the problem is an toolset incompatibility between v12 and v4 of MSBuild (v12 was newly introduced in VS2013). MSBuild works around this issue through binding redirections that force the Silverlight build tasks to use the correct version of the MSBuild assemblies. For some reason, these binding redirections don't seem to function properly under NCrunch. I'm still investigating why this is the case in the hope of releasing a proper fix.
Meanwhile, I may be able to suggest a workaround:
1. Set the 'Use hosted task runner' NCrunch global configuration setting to 'False'
2. Go to the directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Remco Software\NCrunch for Visual Studio 2013
3. Open the file called 'nCrunch.TaskRunner40.x86.exe.config' in notepad
4. Replace the content of this file with:
Code:
<?xml version ="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
<section name="msbuildToolsets" type="Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.ToolsetConfigurationSection, Microsoft.Build.Engine, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
</configSections>
<startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.5.1"/>
</startup>
<runtime>
<legacyUnhandledExceptionPolicy enabled="1" />
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.Build.Framework" publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a" culture="neutral"/>
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-99.9.9.9" newVersion="12.0.0.0"/>
</dependentAssembly>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.Build.Engine" publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a" culture="neutral"/>
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-99.9.9.9" newVersion="12.0.0.0"/>
</dependentAssembly>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.Build" publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a" culture="neutral"/>
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-99.9.9.9" newVersion="12.0.0.0"/>
</dependentAssembly>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.CompactFramework.Build.Tasks" publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a" culture="neutral"/>
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-99.9.9.9" newVersion="9.0.0.0"/>
</dependentAssembly>
</assemblyBinding>
</runtime>
</configuration>
5. Restart Visual Studio
I'm keen to hear if this does the trick!
Cheers,
Remco
