Trying to build my project on the build server gives me the following error:
Microsoft (R) Build Engine Version 4.0.30319.1
error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\TeamData\Microsoft.Data.Schema.SqlTasks.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.
error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.
error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.
I solved this problem a few months ago, with installing Visual Studio 2010 on the Build Server. But now I'm setup a new server from scratch, and I want to know if there any better solution to solve this issue.
To answer the title of the question (but not the question about the output you're getting):
Copying the following folder from your dev machine to your build server fixes this if it's just web applications
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications
Remove x86 according to how your build breaks. If you have other project types you will probably need to copy the entire msbuild folder.
The solution would be to install redistributable packages on build server agent. It can be accomplished multiple ways, out of which 3 are described below. Pick one that suits you best.
Use installer with UI
this is the original answer
Right now, in 2017, you can install WebApplication redists with MSBuildTools. Just go to this page that will download MSBuild 2017 Tools and while installation click Web development build tools to get these targets installed as well:
This will lead to installing missing libraries in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v15.0\WebApplications by default
Use command line
disclaimer I haven't tested any of the following proposals
As #PaulHicks and #WaiHaLee suggested in comments, it can also be installed in headless mode (no ui) from CLI, that might actually be preferable way of solving the problem on remove server.
Solution A - using package manager (choco)
choco install visualstudio2017-workload-webbuildtools
Solution B - run installer in headless mode
Notice, this is the same installer that has been proposed to be used in original answer
vs_BuildTools.exe --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.WebBuildTools --passive
Building and publishing WAPs is not supported if VS is not installed. With that said, if you really do not want to install VS then you will need to copy all the files under %ProgramFiles32%\MSBuild\Microsoft\.
You will need to install the Web Deploy Tool as well. I think that is it.
UPD: as of VS2017, there is workload in Build Tools that eliminates this problem completely. See #SOReader answer.
If you'd prefer not to modify anything on build server, and you still want the project to build right out of source control, it might be a good idea to put the required binaries under source control. You'll need to modify the imports section in your project file to look like this:
<Import Project="$(SolutionDir)\BuildTargets\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" />
<Import Condition="false" Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" />
The first line is the actual import from the new location that is relative to the solution directory. The second one is a turned-off version (Condition="false") of the original line that allows for Visual Studio to still consider your project to be a valid Web Application Project (that's the trick that VS 2010 SP1 does itself).
Don't forget to copy the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications to BuildTargets folder under your source control.
You can also use the NuGet package MSBuild.Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.targets, referencing them within your Visual Studio project(s), then change your references as Andriy K suggests.
Based on this post here you can simply download the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Integrated) Redistributable Package and the targets are installed.
This avoids the need to install Visual Studio on the build server.
I have just tried this out now, and can verify that it works:
Before:
error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files
(x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets"
was not found. Confirm that the path in the declaration is
correct, and that the file exists on disk.
After the install:
[Builds correctly]
This is a far better solution than installing Visual Studio on a build server, obviously.
The latest Windows SDK, as mentioned above, in addition to the "Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Integrated) Redistributable Package" for Microsoft.WebApplication.targets and "Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR R2" for Microsoft.Data.Schema.SqlTasks.targets should alleviate the need to install Visual Studio 2010. However, installing VS 2010 maybe actually be less overall to download and less work in the end.
Add dependency through NuGet & set a Build Parameter
Goal: no changes / installs necessary to the build agents
I have taken a hybrid approach to the NuGet approach by Lloyd here, which was based off of the committing binary dependencies solution by Andrik.
The reason why is I want to be able to add new build agents without having to pre-configure them with items such as this.
On a machine with Visual Studio, Open the solution; ignore that the web project fails.
In the NuGet package manager, add MSBuild.Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.targets, as Lloyd mentioned.
This will resolve the binaries to [solution]\packages\MSBuild.Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.targets.nn.n.n.n\tools\VSToolsPath\
You can copy these to a references folder & commit,
Or just use them where they are at. I chose this, but I'm going to have to deal with the version number in the path later.
In Version 7, I did the following. This may not have been necessary, and based on the comments is definitely not needed now. Please see the comments below.
Next, in your TeamCity build configuration, add a build Paramenter for env.VSToolsPath and set it to the VSToolsPath folder; I used ..\packages\MSBuild.Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.targets.11.0.2.1\tools\VSToolsPath
When building on the build/CI server, turn off the import of Microsoft.WebApplication.targets altogether by specifying /p:VSToolsPath=''. This will, essentially, make the condition of the following line false:
<Import Project="$(VSToolsPath)\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' != ''" />
This is how it's done in TeamCity:
If you migrate Visual Studio 2012 to 2013, then open *.csproj project file with edior.
and check 'Project' tag's ToolsVersion element.
Change its value from 4.0 to 12.0
From
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" ...
To
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="12.0" ...
Or If you build with msbuild then just specify VisualStudioVersion property
msbuild /p:VisualStudioVersion=12.0
Solution Source
It seems the new version of msbuild does not ship with Microsoft.WebApplication.targets. To fix you need to update your csproj file as so:
1) Edit the web app csproj (right click). Find the section in the csproj towards the bottom concerning build tools. It should look like so.
<PropertyGroup>
<VisualStudioVersion Condition="'$(VisualStudioVersion)' == ''">10.0</VisualStudioVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
<Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
<Import Project="$(VSToolsPath)\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' != ''" />
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="false" />
2) You need to add one VSToolsPath line below the VisualStudioVersion tag so it looks like so
<PropertyGroup>
<VisualStudioVersion Condition="'$(VisualStudioVersion)' == ''">10.0</VisualStudioVersion>
<!--Add the below line to fix the project loading in VS 2017 -->
<VSToolsPath Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' == ''">$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)</VSToolsPath>
<!--End -->
</PropertyGroup>
<Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
<Import Project="$(VSToolsPath)\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' != ''" />
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="false" />
Reference link:
https://alastaircrabtree.com/cannot-open-vs-2015-web-project-in-vs-2017/
This is all you need. Only 103MB. Don't install everything
I have found this on MS connect:
Yes, you need to install Visual Studio
2010 on your build machine to build
database projects. Doing so does
not require an additional license of
Visual Studio.
So, this is the only option that I have for now.
Anyone coming here for Visual Studio 2017. I had the similar issue and couldn't compile the project after update to 15.6.1.
I had to install MSBulild tools but still the error was there.
I was able to fix the issue by copying the v14.0 folder from C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio to the same folder as v15.0 and that resolved all the errors.
So now my folder structure looks like below, where both folders contain the same content.
If you are using MSBuild, as in the case of a build server, what worked for me is:
Change the following:
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" />
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="false" />
to:
<Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\Microsoft.VisualBasic.targets" />
<Import Project="$(VSToolsPath)\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' != ''" />
My Msbuild command is: *"C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe" solution.sln /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform="Any CPU"*
Hope this helps someone.
My solution is a mix of several answers here.
I checked the build server, and Windows7/NET4.0 SDK was already installed, so I did find the path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets`
However, on this line:
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" />
$(MSBuildExtensionsPath) expands to C:\Program Files\MSBuild which does not have the path.
Therefore what I did was to create a symlink, using this command:
mklink /J "C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio" "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio"
This way the $(MSBuildExtensionsPath) expands to a valid path, and no changes are needed in the app itself, only in the build server (perhaps one could create the symlink every build, to make sure this step is not lost and is "documented").
I fixed this by adding
/p:VCTargetsPath="C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V120"
into
Build > Build a Visual Studio project or solution using MSBuild > Command Line Arguments
I tried a bunch of solutions, but in the end this answer worked for me: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19826448/431522
It basically entails calling MSBuild from the MSBuild directory, instead of the Visual Studio directory.
I also added the MSBuild directory to my path, to make the scripts easier to code.
I was having this issue building a SQL Server project on a CI/CD pipeline. In fact, I was having it locally as well, and I did not manage to solve it.
What worked for me was using an MSBuild SDK, capable of producing a SQL Server Data-Tier Application package (.dacpac) from a set of SQL scripts, which implies creating a new project. But I wanted to keep the SQL Server project, so that I could link it to the live database through SQL Server Object Explorer on Visual Studio. I took the following steps to have this up and running:
Kept my SQL Server project with the .sql database scripts.
Created a .NET Standard 2.0 class library project, making sure that the target framework was .NET Standard 2.0, as per the guidelines in the above link.
Set the contents of the .csproj as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project Sdk="MSBuild.Sdk.SqlProj/1.0.0">
<PropertyGroup>
<SqlServerVersion>Sql140</SqlServerVersion>
<TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework>
</PropertyGroup>
</Project>
I have chosen Sql140 as the SQL Server version because I am using SQL Server 2019. Check this answer to find out the mapping to the version you are using.
Ignore the SQL Server project on build, so that it stops breaking locally (it does build on Visual Studio, but it fails on VS Code).
Now we just have to make sure the .sql files are inside the SDK project when it is built. I achieved that with a simple powershell routine on the CI/CD pipeline that would copy the files from the SQL Server project to the SDK project:
Copy-Item -Path "Path.To.The.Database.Project\dbo\Tables\*"
-Destination (New-item -Name "dbo\Tables" -Type Directory -Path "Path.To.The.DatabaseSDK.Project\")
PS: The files have to be physically in the SDK project, either in the root or on some folder, so links to the .sdk files in the SQL Server project won't work. In theory, it should be possible to copy these files with a pre-build condition, but for some obscure reason, this was not working for me. I tried also to have the .sql files on the SDK project and link them to the SQL Server project, but that would easily break the link with the SQL Server Object Explorer, so I decided to drop this as well.
In case if you're trying to deploy a project using VSTS, then issue might be connected with checking "Hosted Windows Container" option instead of "Hosted VS2017"(or 18, etc.):
I fixed this by running the build in a docker container, specifically dotnet/framework/sdk. It includes the VS build tools.
Creating a new project and copying over the settings should probably provide the best guidance in what to do. This is what it looks like on mine
<PropertyGroup>
<VisualStudioVersion Condition="'$(VisualStudioVersion)' == ''">10.0</VisualStudioVersion>
<VSToolsPath Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' == ''">$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)</VSToolsPath>
</PropertyGroup>
<Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
<Import Project="$(VSToolsPath)\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' != ''" />
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="false" />
In my case, It was just a Port-Block.
After installation of MSBuild tools from Microsoft, define the MSBuild path in the environment variable, so that it can be run from any path.
Edit the .csproj file in any notepad editor such as notepad++, and comment the
Check for the following elements,
-->
Make sure you use import only once, choose whichever works.
Make sure you have the following folder exists on the drive, "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0" or whichever version is referenced by MSBuild target at "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets"
From the command prompt, run the following command, to check
C:>msbuild "C:\\DotnetCi.sln" /p:Configuration=Release /p:UseWPP_CopyWebApplication=true /p:PipelineDependsOnBuild=false
choose /p switch as appropriate, refer to enter link description here
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I have a problem with my Visual Studio installation.
To reproduce it I have created a new blank solution and then:
Add new project..
ASP.NET Web Application
Web API
Create Project
Visual Studio fails to create it an I get this message:
The element <#text> beneath element <Project> is unrecognized.
Any ideas how to fix that?
You will get such an error if csproj contains invalid XML.
I encountered this error when I accidentally removed <!-- inside csproj file and leave -->:
<Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
<Target Name="BeforeBuild">
</Target>
<Target Name="AfterBuild">
</Target>
This doesn't address the OP's precise problem, but I stumbled across this question when I had a legitimate XML break. Sometimes, these are just really hard to spot errors, even with good IDEs.
I had to go through a diff of a ~~800 line XML file until I spotted a closing bracket with an extra >.
I wasn't able to spot it in VS2015, VS Code, Notepad++, and even WC3's automated checks -- it wasn't until I did a diff between the before and after when I noticed it. Sometimes the linters just don't catch stuff, or the suspiciously flagged area is so tiny, you miss it.
I had this same problem before and this is how I fixed it:
In the .csproj file I found these:
">>>>>>> HEAD"
"======="
and this:
">>>>>>> fef5434acad74bc99dccc873b9feded6484317d1"
within the file in random locations in between the tags. There were errors attached to all of them.
Once I removed them my project was able to load again.
Hope that helps!
If anyone gets this problem, it's due to an XML syntax error in the file.
For me it was when merging and all I did to fix was search "<<<" , ">>>" and "===" and I found the lines that were giving me a problem
This warning generated from my app.config file is driving me crazy and I have been searching without getting any real answer as to why this is the case. Here is the code.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
I fixed the problem for VS2013 and .NET 4.6 targeting projects by editing C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Xml\Schemas\catalog.xml.
I modified existing line:
<Association extension="config" schema="%InstallRoot%/xml/schemas/%LCID%/dotNetConfig.xsd" condition="starts-with($TargetFrameworkMoniker, '.NETFramework,Version=v4.5.') or $TargetFrameworkMoniker = ''" />
to
<Association extension="config" schema="%InstallRoot%/xml/schemas/%LCID%/dotNetConfig.xsd" condition="starts-with($TargetFrameworkMoniker, '.NETFramework,Version=v4.5.') or starts-with($TargetFrameworkMoniker, '.NETFramework,Version=v4.6')" />
Closed and reopened VS2013 and intellisense in both app.config and web.config files started to work again (with .NET 4.6 targeting projects).
From the main menu in VS, choose XML > Schemas... (must have XML file open in IDE to see the XML menu item). In the window that pops up, find the entry for DotNetConfig.xsd (should be first item), and select the checkmark in the Use column for that entry. Then click OK.
I had the same problem, this solved it:
From the Visual Studio menu,
click XML>Schemas...
Look for DotNetConfig.xsd
Make sure you check 'use this schema'
And 'Ok'