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The default XML namespace of the project must be the MSBuild XML namespace
I cloned the ASP.NET Core SignalR Repo locally, and try opening the solution from within the following environment.
IDE
Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2015
Version 14.0.25431.01 Update 3
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How do I get .NET Core projects to copy NuGet references to the build output?
I'm trying to write a plugin system with .NET Core, and one of my requirements are to be able to distribute the plugin DLL along with its dependencies to the user for install.
However, I can't figure ...
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MSBUILD throws error: The SDK 'Microsoft.NET.Sdk' specified could not be found
I'm trying to build a solution using msbuild command line and I keep getting this error:
error MSB4236: The SDK 'Microsoft.NET.Sdk' specified could not be found.
The version of msbuild is the latest ...
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How do you multi-target a .NET Core class library with csproj?
When .NET Core still used the project.json format, you could build a class library targeting multiple frameworks (e.g. net451, netcoreapp1.0).
Now that the official project format is csproj using ...
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Package version is always 1.0.0 with dotnet pack
TLDR: Where is dotnet pack pulling the version information when it creates the nuget package for an assembly?
I have a library, that I had transitioned from a .NET 4.6.1 project to a .NET Core ...
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Can files be nested in VS2017 Solution Explorer for .NET Core (non-ASP.NET Core) projects?
In "old school" MSBuild projects - as still used by Windows Forms in VS2017 for example - files could be "nested" via a DependentUpon item in the csproj file.
I used this to group unit tests together ...
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How do I exclude files/folders from a .NET Core/Standard project?
In .NET Core and .NET Standard projects, if you put files and folders within the project directory, they are automatically picked up by Visual Studio; essentially they are part of the project.
What ...
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The current .NET SDK does not support targeting .NET Core 3.0 | 3.1 | 5.0 | 6.0
I've just downloaded the release version of .NET Core 3.0.100
It was installed alongside older version that I have:
When I try to run dotnet restore for a project that targets .NET Core 3 (<...
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What are the differences between Microsoft.NET.Sdk and Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web
I have a solution with two host projects (one is a Web Host and the other is a Generic Host) and a class library project referenced by those two host projects.
In the Sdk attribute of the root tag &...
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Setting custom <OutputPath> in .NET Core (stop adding framework target)? [duplicate]
In traditional .NET applications, it was possible to set a custom <OutputPath> of an assembly in the .csproj file (or via the project properties dialog). A path of e.g. bin\$(Configuration)\$(...
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How to access artifacts folder after build in TFS online?
PreInfo: I have .net core web api (vs2015) mixed with just ordinary projects.
I have spent almost 2 days now to get this to work and search and tried everything I can think of, but I just cant for ...
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Could not load file or assembly Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions
I'm using VS2019 Pro v16.3.5
I have a solution containing an Azure functions project which references several class library projects.
The top-level project fails to compile with the following error:...
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Where is full documentation about the csproj format for .net core?
Is there a full documentation about the csproj format for .net core projects?
I was looking for a way to copy files before building.
After some searching I found a solution, but I can't find the ...
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How to use the dotnet-pack --version-suffix with csproj?
I'm trying to use the .net Core tools RC4 dotnet pack command to create a nuget package with a suffix.
I can create "MyProject.1.2.3.nupkg" successfully but I want "MyProject.1.2.3-beta.nupkg".
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How can I use BeforeBuild and AfterBuild targets with Visual Studio 2017?
After upgrading to a csproj to use Visual Studio 2017 and Microsoft.NET.Sdk, my "BeforeBuild" and "AfterBuild" targets are no longer running. My file looks like this:
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET....
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Is There a Way to Force a Project Reference to .NET Standard Project to a Specific TargetFramework
I am a contributor to a GitHub project, and recently we had some trouble with our .NET Standard 2.0 project installing correctly into a .NET Framework 4.5 project. The cause of this is that (if I am ...
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'dotnet build' specify main method
I am using dotnet to build a .NET Core C# project from the command line. The project has multiple classes with a main method. Thus I get the error:
$ dotnet build
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version ...
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How to get the current operating system in MSBuild?
I have a .NET Core 1.1 console project created with Visual Studio 2017.
After building the project, I need to run a powershell script so I added the following to the MyProject.csproj file:
<Target ...
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MSBuild publish dotnet core application
My setup is: I have a solution that had different dotnet4.6 applications (services) in it. Now we added a dotnet core project inside this solution. I can build and debug it, but this doesn't create an ...
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How to copy files to output directory from a referenced NuGet package in .NET Core csproj?
I'm trying to use PhantomJS NuGet package in .NET core csproj application. But I think it is not possible using new PackageReference syntax for NuGet.
When I reference the PhantomJS package like ...
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The reference assemblies for framework .NETCore, Version=v5.0 were not found
I have a UWP project that was created using Visual Studio 2017. It builds fine on this machine (machine 1).
However, when I copy the project over to a machine (machine 2) where I only have the Visual ...
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Where to get msbuild for Linux [duplicate]
I want to build a .net core project on Windows and Linux.
For Windows I use MSBuild, simply downloaded the Build Tools für Visual Studio 2017 from visualstudio.com.
But where do I get MSBuild for ...
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Building SQL Server Database Project In Ubuntu
I'm building an ASP.NET Core 2.0 Web API application that is hosted in an Ubuntu environment. So far, I've had great success getting things building and running (for the .NET Core app) in Ubuntu.
For ...
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Understanding .NET Core csproj actions
I'm trying to have the contents of a folder copied to build output. Ideally under the same path relative to the output/publish folder. I have:
<!-- front-end files to serve -->
<ItemGroup&...
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dotnet publish command is not creating zip file package for asp.net core web application project
I am trying to create a web deployment package for asp.net core web application. When I tried to publish the output as a package using VS2017, I got all the necessary files in "Publish" folder as well ...
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How to get MSBuild 15 without a full install of Visual Studio?
"MSBuild is now installed in a folder under each version of Visual Studio." However, I do not want to install a full VS on the server. "MSBuild is now available as part of the .NET Core SDK."
Now ...
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The Dnx Runtime package needs to be installed. See output window for more details
I'm using Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise Edition and created simple Asp.net5 application. When I try to debug I'm getting this error.
The Dnx Runtime package needs to be installed. See output window ...
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dotnet core 2 long build time because of long restore time
I noticed that building in dotnet core 2 seemed a lot slower.
But the timing after the build always showed 'only' 15 seconds.
I couldn't believe that so I timed it with time.
> time dotnet build
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What is the purpose of msbuild's GenerateRuntimeConfigurationFiles?
I upgraded a netcore1.1 project to the new VS2017/csproj.
In my test projects only, it added:
<PropertyGroup>
<GenerateRuntimeConfigurationFiles>true</...
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dotnet publish profile ignores pubxml file
I have the following pubxml file which I created via Visual Studio 2019:
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<...
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What's the version history of MSBuild?
What is the version history of MS Build?
I see that my .NET Framework installation folders have a version 4.something where as the Visual Studio 2017 Community folder and the .NET Core (v1.0) folder ...
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Assembly location for Razor SDK Tasks was not specified
My project fails to build on a build server.
I recently added a new ASP.Net Core (2.2) MVC project with razor pages. The project and the rest of the solution target the .Net Framework 4.7.2.
In ...
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The attribute "Version" in element <PackageReference> is unrecognized
I have a solution with many projects that target .net 4.6.1. On our MS build server it builds just fine. I recently added a project that targets .NET Standard 1.3. This will not build on the build ...
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dotnet build not compiling .NET Framework 4.6.1 Application
I am trying to compile a solution using dotnet build on command line. This solution unfortunately has projects which target different frameworks. Most of these have been migrated to target .NET ...
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How to read/get a PropertyGroup value from a .csproj file using C# in a .NET Core 2 classlib project?
I want to get the value of the element <Location>SourceFiles/ConnectionStrings.json</Location> that is child of <PropertyGroup /> using C#. This is located at the .csproj file for a ....
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How to "dotnet pack" an already compiled project
I'm trying to design a build script for a dotnet core 2.0 project that does the following actions
Cleans output directories
Builds Solution with -o bin\Publish
Runs Unit Tests with dotnet vstest
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`dotnet sln add` wrong project type GUID
When I do dotnet sln add {myProject.csproj} for a .NET Core/Standard project, it adds it as project type (I think) {FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC} instead of .NET Core's {9A19103F-16F7-4668-...
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Prevent `dotnet pack --no-build` from triggering a build and causing NETSDK1085
I expect that when running the following two commands, the latter will not trigger a new build:
dotnet build solution.sln --configuration Release
dotnet pack solution.sln --configuration Release --no-...
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MSBuild /t:pack Nuget-Package has always the same Version
I am creating a nuget-package with /t:pack in my TFS-Build. I can't the use Nuget-Pack-Step, because I am using
<TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework>
How can I apply my ...
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dotnet core publish: include/exclude dir in output
Given aspnet project with folders:
/
/sql
/WebApp
/Client
/wwwroot
/Views
On project.json I used
"publishOptions": {
"include": [
"..\\sql",
"wwwroot",
"Views",...
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How to set the MSBuild verision for TeamCity NuGet Installer?
I'm trying to restore NuGet packages for a .NET Core solution using NuGet Installer TeamCity build step. The 'MSBuild auto-detection' chooses MSBuild v4.0 instead of v15.0 which is required for .NET ...
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Conditional per TargetFramework in MsBuild 15
With the new MsBuild version it's really easy to target multiple frameworks and framework versions in .csproj project:
<TargetFrameworks>net40;net45;net461;netcoreapp1.1</TargetFrameworks>...
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Automatically nest files in .csproj class libary (DependentUpon)
I have a number of C# files I am generating. I would like them to automatically be nested under the matching C# file inside the Visual Studio solution explorer. For example, Foo.Generated.cs and Bar....
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How can I check if MSBuild is using .NET Core?
I am using Scripty.MsBuild to generate some files in a ASP.NET Core project. When I build from VS2017, the target runs successfully, but when I build via dotnet, I get the error:
Scripty.MsBuild....
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Asp.net website project targeting 4.7.2 cannot resolve .netstandard 2.0 reference using MSBuild
I have a .net 4.0 asp.net website (the old ones, with no .csproj).
This references a .net framework 4.0 class library (Shared Library A).
I have added a new .net core API project to the solution.
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Building .NET Core 1.0 RC2 app on the build server
I've updated my app from DNX, ASP.NET 5 RC1 to ASP.NET Core 1.0 RC2.
Locally it builds and runs fine.
On the build server, I don't have Visual Studio installed, and the build fails with:
error ...
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Is it possible to remove the full-paths from .NET assemblies created with dotnet build?
I build my project with dotnet build, targeting netcoreapp3.1.
The problem is that the assemblies contain the full path to the source-files:
/home/runner/my-app/App.fs
This means that the hash of the ...
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DotNet Core .csproj code files as child items
I am migrating an old .NET Framework csproj to dotnet core. What is the dotnet core equivalent of this:
<Compile Include="ServiceHost.Designer.cs">
<DependentUpon>ServiceHost.cs</...
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dotnet publish succeeds on dev machine, build agent fails, asp.net Netcoreapp2.1/win-x64
On "Hosted VS2017" and self-hosted build agent (Windows Server 2012 R2), running dotnet publish with a publish profile specified fails with:
C:\Program
Files\dotnet\sdk\2.1.502\Sdks\Microsoft.NET....
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.NET Core - build project specifying ReferencePath
I have a .csproj for the .NetCore platform with classic references. I'm using the hintpath attribute for the development environment. But I should build csproj on the CI-environment where referenced ...
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