Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Js

Question

I have a WinJS project that is previously built on Windows 8.1 using VS 2013.

Recently I upgraded this project to Universal Windows 10 by creating a blank Javascript Universal windows 10 project and then added all my files from old project.

I have Windows Runtime Components and also Class Library for SQLite.

I added Universal Windows Runtime Component and Universal Class Library and copied all my files from old project to respective places.

Somehow I managed to remove all the build errors.

I installed all the required SQLite-net, SQLite for Universal Windows Platform, Newtonsoft, etc.

But when I run the application and call a Native method in Windows Runtime Component it gives some kind of strange errors as:

An exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in mscorlib.ni.dll but was not handled in user code.

Additional information: Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Newtonsoft version is: 9.0.1

My project.json file of Windows Runtime Component has following:

  {
  "dependencies": {
    "Microsoft.NETCore.UniversalWindowsPlatform": "5.0.0",
    "Newtonsoft.Json": "9.0.1"
  },
  "frameworks": {
    "uap10.0": {}
  },
  "runtimes": {
    "win10-arm": {},
    "win10-arm-aot": {},
    "win10-x86": {},
    "win10-x86-aot": {},
    "win10-x64": {},
    "win10-x64-aot": {}
  }
}

My Visual Studio version is:

I tried removing all the Newtonsoft json and re-installing it but no luck.

Answer 1

I had a similar problem with a new ASP.NET Core application a while ago. Turns out one of the referenced libraries used a version of Newtonsoft.Json that was lower than 9.0.0.0. So I upgraded the version for that library and the problem was solved. Not sure if you'll be able to do the same here