Every time Microsoft releases some build tooling it feels like they forget lots of us use it to build websites. And we do this on build servers that do not have Visual Studio installed using scripts. We even dare to have created websites with old versions of Visual Studio and upgrade them when a new one comes out. I often find that these scripted builds fail on build servers because they are missing Microsoft....
Brand new installs of Visual Studio 2017 do not seem to be able to open some older web projects created in Visual Studio 2015 or before. To fix you need to add one line to your csproj file. The problem When you open the solution in VS 2017 the project will not be loaded. If you try and right click and reload the project check the output window to see the following error:...
In VS 2013+ msbuild moved out of the core .net framework and is available as a separate install for build agents know as “Build tools”. You need to be aware that MsBuild has moved path for studio 2013 and 2015 - the path of msbuild in 2015 is C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\Bin\msbuild.exe (moved from C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\12.0\Bin\msbuild.exe in 2013 and C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe in 2012 and before). More info on the studio blog from 2013....