How to fix the Compiler Error Message: The compiler failed with error code 255 error

by Steve French in Uncategorized on July 15, 2016

Recently I was deploying some sites, and got the error “Compiler Error Message: The compiler failed with error code 255.” – which looks like this

after some research the cause of, and solution to was all in the nuget package manager.  I had recently added a new project to the solution and some of the more “stock” nuget packages were out of sync with with the newer packages.  Make sure all of the nuget packages are the same version and your problems will be resolved.