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Pramod
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Unexpected Error

Hi, I am getting an below unexpected error when I open PowerBI Desktop on my local windows machine.

When I click on the 'close' button it keeps on coming.

 

Can someone help me please.

 

Unexpected Error

Could not load type 'System.Collections.Generic.IReadOnlyCollection`1' from assembly 'mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.

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Pramod
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Consider this as closed, I reinstalled Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5

Strange, I was having same version earlier, just reinstalled again 🙂

 

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Pramod
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Consider this as closed, I reinstalled Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5

Strange, I was having same version earlier, just reinstalled again 🙂

 

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