Based on documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/schema/msbuild-targets, it looks like msbuild now support 2 specific targets for NuGet: Pack and Restore.
I have been able to use Restore properly, but not Pack.
error MSB4057: The target "Pack" does not exist in the project.
Is it supported for traditional .Net project or is it a .Net Core thing only?
I haven't been able to find any documentation stating it clearly.
Regarding required dependencies, I am using
PM> nuget help
NuGet Version: 4.1.0.2450
usage: NuGet <command> [args] [options]
Type 'NuGet help <command>' for help on a specific command.
And
C:\Git>msbuild /version
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 15.1.1012.6693
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
15.1.1012.6693
With
Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2017
Version 15.2 (26430.12) Release
VisualStudio.15.Release/15.2.0+26430.12
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.6.01586
It is supported out of the box for "SDK-based" projects. There is no project template in VS for .NET Framework libraries using this ""new-style csproj"", but you can create a .NET Standard library project and manually change the TargetFramework property in the csproj file from netstandard1.6 to net461. Note that the project system that is used for these types of project doesn't support many features available in classic .net projects yet (like designers for WinForms, Xaml, edmx).
The resulting project file would look like this:
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFramework>net461</TargetFramework>
</PropertyGroup>
</Project>
Looks like I did not Google enough... this blog post clearly speaks about .Net Core only: http://blog.nuget.org/20170316/NuGet-now-fully-integrated-into-MSBuild.html
Some of the features discussed earlier are not yet fully supported for
packages.config based projects such as defining nuspec metadata in
project files, building packages directly from a project, [...]. We are hard at work to bring full PackageReference support to
these project types. Our goal is to eventually make PackageReference
the default and move away from all other formats.
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I've started a new .NET 7 project in Visual Studio 2022. The template I used was "ASP.NET Core WebAPI". The project turned out to look like this in the solution explorer:
I can see that there is a dependency upon a series of DLLs in the folder "C:\Program Files\dotnet\packs\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Ref\7.0.2\ref\net7.0". When I browse to this folder and grab, for instance, the "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Abstractions.dll" assembly I see its version as 7.0.22..... which makes sense.
What is weird is that when I click "Manage NuGet Packages" on this project I see absolutely no NuGet package already installed. It looks like this dependency mechanism is something independent of NuGet.
Now I want to create a class library that will encapsulate some common functionality I'd like to share across the projects but it needs to read data from the HttpContext class, which is defined in the "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Abstractions.dll" file. So how should I add this dependency?
Adding it through "dotnet add package Microsoft.AspNetCore.App" command on the class library projects seems like a waste of resources as it adds the entire bundle of dlls and I only care about .Http.Abstractons.dll and it's direct dependencies.
Plus, when I ran the command Visual Studio complained with the warning:
NETSDK1080 A PackageReference to Microsoft.AspNetCore.App is not necessary when targeting .NET Core 3.0 or higher. If Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web is used, the shared framework will be referenced automatically. Otherwise, the PackageReference should be replaced with a FrameworkReference".
Adding the dll through NuGet worked as Visual Studio was not complaining any more but the version of assembly added was 2.2.0 and not 7.0.2 as in the dotnet package. So technically, the HttpContext referenced in one projects is a different thing to the HttpContext referenced in the other project.
Please help me understand this mechanism and how should I add the dll of interest to my project to be able to access HttpContext in my library.
When should I use dotnet add package and when should I use NuGet packages management? Any good reading on this subject to bring me up to speed from .NET Framework 4.+ to .NET 7 in this area?
As .NET user for the last 10 years or so I feel so lost in the recent developments and find official docs I can find on the web of little use.
I tried adding the Microsoft.AspNetCore.App package through the "dotnet add package" command - Visual Studio complained, plus it pulled the entire bundle of assemblies but I care about only "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Abstractions.dll".
I tried adding the "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Abstractions" NuGet package but the version of assembly added was completely different to the one referenced in the WebAPI project.
What is weird is that when I click "Manage NuGet Packages" on this project I see absolutely no NuGet package already installed.
Those dependencies are determined by the project SDK which can be found in the root element of .csproj:
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">
...
</Project>
So how should I add this dependency?
For latest versions of .NET you should reference corresponding SDK via FrameworkReference, for example to reference ASP.NET Core components you should add <FrameworkReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.App"/> to library projects .csproj file as mentioned in the docs (and in the warning):
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
<!--... rest of file-->
<ItemGroup>
<FrameworkReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.App" />
</ItemGroup>
<!--... rest of file-->
</Project>
I have made a project in VS2019. I have the same project in .NET Core and .NET Framework. I use a COM reference in my project. I would like to migrate these projects to Pi4.
A simple Hello World project (.NET Core) is running successfully on the Pi4 machine. However, when I try to run my project (.NET core or .NET Framework) it does not run on the Pi4. It says COM is not supported.
I tried to build the project using MSBuild in my Windows environment after looking for solutions in Google. I also see a similar error here. The error is: error : MSB4803: The task "ResolveComReference" is not supported on the .NET Core version of MSBuild. Please use the .NET Framework version of MSBuild.
The .NET Framework project also gives a similar error.
error MSB4028: The "ResolveComReference" task's outputs could not be retrieved from the "ResolvedFiles" parameter. Object does not match target type.
Does anyone have similar issues?
https://github.com/microsoft/msbuild/issues/3986
According to the above link. The employee of Microsoft is saying they can not give solution in the near future.
Set the Projects to x86 for them to build the Interop, the Interop created still could not be used in x64 runtimes.
Add the COM Reference to the Core project, Build it and you will get an Interop.YourCom in the bin/x86/core/debug folder.
Remove the COM reference, and re-add the Interop, it will be put into the Assemblies Dependencies, and MSBuild will work.
My MSB4803 was from a WIXInstaller project, for ADOX, and Microsoft.Office.Interop.Access.Dao
I stumbled upon this question many times and I experienced the same several times in different projects. It doesn't matter if it is Visual Studio 2019 or 2022 and the version of the build, unless you are working with the old MSBuild in a legacy environment, the COM Reference doesn't work. It is always safe to build it in the command line to understand if anything in the VS environment works. I don't truly understand why Microsoft let you make those references in the Visual Studio environment when they will not work nearly anywhere else.
There are some workarounds that might or might not work but if your code is already pointing at a COM library there is no much to do. You can install the NuGet package which is going to pass the build stage and remove the COM reference.
Install-Package Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel -Version 15.0.4795.1001
The NuGet package has some differences at the types level that you will need to fix (the COM reference allows you to get specific types instead of objects from the cells values)
In any case, you will need the COM installed in the server, there is no workaround that issue.
I wouldn't say I like this error message or the link it shows on how to fix it, to be polite.... ;-);
I figured it out and thought as there are a lot of answers that are not helpful to share mine. What I did is update your command to force the use of msbuild.
dotnet msbuild -v:normal "FullOrRelativePathTo\MyProject.csproj" -p:Configuration=RELEASE
If that fails, try:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin\msbuild.exe" "PathTo\Project.csproj" /p:Configuration=RELEASE
I know I'm late to the party, but here is a workaround working for me when I want to use Office Interop in .NET (Core):
Create an empty .net Console app (I'm using Rider and .NET 7)
Build it with the default MSBuild (17.0 in my case at the time of writing)
Add Interop references to the project file (I don't use Nuget, only generate these in a dummy .NET Framework project while adding COM references to Office libraries), eg.
<ItemGroup>
<COMReference Include="Excel">
<Guid>{00020813-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}</Guid>
<VersionMajor>1</VersionMajor>
<VersionMinor>9</VersionMinor>
<Lcid>0</Lcid>
<WrapperTool>tlbimp</WrapperTool>
<Isolated>False</Isolated>
<EmbedInteropTypes>True</EmbedInteropTypes>
</COMReference>
</ItemGroup>
Change the solution MSBuild version to 4.0
Try to build the solution, but the project will not even load properly due to an outdated MSBuild version
Revert the MSBuild version to the default one
Build the project - success! (this is the magic part, I can't explain it :P)
Project Setup : Mixed framework solution
.Net Framework 4.6.2 projects in solution : 15
.Net Standard 2.0 projects in solution - 1
Development Machine
Visual Studio 2017(15.7.4) : Builds without any errors
Build Server
TeamCity Version 2017.1.3
Build Steps
Nuget Restore(3.4.4)
dotnet Restore
MSBuild( Build Tools 2017), Tools Version 15.0
Build fails with following error in the .net standard 2.0 project : [ResolvePackageAssets] C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.1.301\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\targets\Microsoft.PackageDependencyResolution.targets(198, 5): Package System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, version 4.4.0 was not found. It might have been deleted since NuGet restore. Otherwise, NuGet restore might have only partially completed, which might have been due to maximum path length restrictions.
What's interesting is I can't find reference or use of System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData anywhere in the project. Any help is greatly appreciated.
P.S - Can't use dotnet build, as the solution needs building of licenses.licx files, and the component which builds it (Microsoft.Build.Tasks.LC) is not ported to .Net Core. The suggestion from various posts was to use MsBuild.exe
I'm getting the runtime error:
InvalidOperationException: Can not find assembly file mscorlib.dll at '...\bin\Debug\net462\refs,...\bin\Debug\net462\'
This had not been a problem until I updated to version 15.3.1 this morning, and installed the .Net Core 2.0 SDK.
The DLL's are present in my ~\.nuget\packages folder. I'd had the same issue with the "Microsoft.Csharp.dll" assembly until I copied and pasted it into the stated folder.
I tried specifying to use .Net Core 1.1.0 via a global.json file, but then I get the build error:
The version of Microsoft.NET.Sdk used by this project is insufficient to support references to libraries targeting .NET Standard 1.5 or higher. Please install version 2.0 or higher of the .NET Core SDK.
This error goes away if I clean the solution then restore Nuget packages via Command Line- not via the GUI. However it comes back if I change the version of a nuget package.
OK, this seem slightly different to my issue here: Visual Studio update 2017 15.3.1 forces ASP.NET Core SDK 2.0, which then doesn't find "reference assemblies"
If you install the SDK 2.0 from https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/core
You will then "probably" be able to build and run the project again but you'll be back to having the missing Microsoft.CSharp.dll / mscorelib.dll error.
If you then make sure the dependency is correct for the netstandard version:
<DependsOnNETStandard>netstandard1.5</DependsOnNETStandard>
See here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/net-standard for the right version for you. My project is using core 1.1 targeting the full framework 4.6.1 and targeting netstandard1.6 has worked for me.
The final piece of the puzzel, was found on the GitHub issues here: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/1488
Add the following to your references in the .csproj file:
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyModel" Version="2.0.0" />
This will then build the project as a 1.1 project, but using the 2.0 SDK (which from what I can tell, it's supposed to do!). I can now run the project, update packages and generally got on with my work!
If I create a .NET Core Class Library in Visual Studio 2017, I get the Package tab on project properties. If I create an "old fashioned" Class Library, I do not get the Package tab, nor the "Pack" target in MSBuild.
NuGet is integrated into VS2017 and MSBuild to some degree, but it seems to be only for .NET Core projects.
Is there a way to use any of the NuGet integration for non-.NET Core projects or do I just need to install the NuGet CLI and use a .nuspec file?
This support for integrated packaging needs "SDK-style" csproj files which are used for .NET Core and .NET Standard projects. Since a few features (like some designers) aren't yet available for these projects, there are no templates for "SDK-style" csproj-based projects for .NET Standard.
However, you can create a .NET Standard project and change the csproj file from
<TargetFramework>netstandard1.6</TargetFramework>
to a net* moniker like
<TargetFramework>net461</TargetFramework>
This gives you all the tooling for creating NuGet packages and managing versions and metadata.