MdilXapCompile.exe failed with error code 1004
Another blog post about my struggles with weird compilation errors of universal app solution.
This one occurs only when you’re compiling in Release configuration, otherwise it’s not bothering you. I couldn’t find any solution online (at that time) and we were helpless for about a week. Finally we overcame this issue, when my boss stumbled upon, totally by coincidence, on one of his subscribed feeds (or forums or something else) on a thread with similar description and gave me the solution.
What I had to do, was to remove all the resources files from the packages (nuget packages) folder in the solution. I searched them by the resources phrase and literally selected all the files that were ending with resources and deleted them
After deleting all the resources (I advice no to use shfit + del, but just del, so that in case of deleting something important you can recover it from the bin) problem was gone, and I was able to compile in Release mode again.
Some links, that might be useful on this matter, after quick googling: