I recently came across this nice project, but it wouldn’t run on my Windows 7 system. After some digging, I figured out the cause and wanted to share the solution in case it helps someone else in the future.

MSBuildStructuredLog has been broken on Windows 7 since [2.2.465](v2.2.441...v2.2.465) because PresentationFramework.Aero2 does not exist in
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\WPF on Windows 7.

As a result, the application fails at startup with the following error when you load the binlog.

System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException: Initialization of 'System.Windows.Controls.ContextMenu' threw an exception. ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'PresentationFramework.Aero2, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

To work around this, you can copy PresentationFramework.Aero2.dll from a Windows 10 installation (located at
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\WPF), or extract it from x64-Windows10.0-KB4486153-x64. Place the DLL into the application’s install directory, which is usually:

app-x.x.xxx under %LOCALAPPDATA%\MSBuildStructuredLogViewer\

@KirillOsenkov
According to this post (use Chrome’s translation):
https://www.cnblogs.com/dino623/p/Windows7-Using-Aero2.html

It should also be possible to fix this by referencing the correct DLL within the project.