Troubleshooting - Invalid URI: The format of the URI could not be determined
While running Visual Studio as another user, and no profile exists for the user on the particular machine, the common folders are not available on the machine. These folders are used in MSBuild in the VisualStudio SDK code files. This will give an error displaying the following message: Invalid URI: The format of the URI could not be determined.
Solution:
Log on to the particular machine and ensure that the Startup and Common Startup folders exists when running VisualStudio as another user.
