We are attempting to set up a CI-CD build for the mobile projects that come with the default ASP.NET Zero AgileDemo project.
At this time, I am able to successfully build the AgileDemo.Mobile.Droid project using an msbuild command on my local using the following command:
msbuild /t:clean;restore;compile;build;packageforandroid AgileDemo.Mobile.Droid.csproj
However, using this same command in a hosted VS2017 MSBuild task in VSTS throws the following errors:
2018-12-21T18:22:21.9051198Z CoreCompile:
2018-12-21T18:22:21.9065316Z C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\Roslyn\csc.exe <snip lots of options>
2018-12-21T18:22:21.9074660Z Using shared compilation with compiler from directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\Roslyn
2018-12-21T18:22:22.4124711Z ##[error]aspnet-core\src\AgileDemo.Application.Shared\Authorization\Accounts\Dto\ActivateEmailInput.cs(3,14): Error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Web' does not exist in the namespace 'System' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
2018-12-21T18:22:22.4132023Z Authorization\Accounts\Dto\ActivateEmailInput.cs(3,14): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Web' does not exist in the namespace 'System' (are you missing an assembly reference?) [D:\a\3\s\aspnet-core\src\AgileDemo.Application.Shared\AgileDemo.Application.Shared.csproj]
2018-12-21T18:22:22.4135486Z ##[error]aspnet-core\src\AgileDemo.Application.Shared\Authorization\Accounts\Dto\ResetPasswordInput.cs(3,14): Error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Web' does not exist in the namespace 'System' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
2018-12-21T18:22:22.4135738Z Authorization\Accounts\Dto\ResetPasswordInput.cs(3,14): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Web' does not exist in the namespace 'System' (are you missing an assembly reference?) [D:\a\3\s\aspnet-core\src\AgileDemo.Application.Shared\AgileDemo.Application.Shared.csproj]
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and on and on.
I'm not sure I understand why it works locally but not on the hosted system running the same version of msbuild.
For fun, I've attempted to build this using a Xamarin task and a dotnet task. All fail as well with similar errors.
Has anyone seen this and resolved it successfully?
6 Answer(s)
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Hi @smackofham
Do you have System.Web reference in AgileDemo.Application.Shared.csproj ?
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No.
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MsBuild works differently when there's a Visual Studio installed on a machine. So if you want to have the same behaviour with your development machine, you can try installing Visual Studio on your CI-CD server (this is the result oriented solution).
alternatively try installing BuildTools on your server https://www.visualstudio.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=BuildTools
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sorry I missed that you've already installed Visual studio on your server.... am I right you have a Visual Studio on the server?
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Yes - this is a hosted VS2017 build agent. It has Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise installed already.
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looks like you accidentally added a System.Web reference to AgileDemo.Application.Shared. See these classes whether they have an invalid reference.
- ActivateEmailInput.cs
- ResetPasswordInput.cs
By the way to reproduce the same problem on your dev machine. close visual studio and delete all BIN & OBJ folders. run it again. you'll probably see the same error.
