error MSB4057: The target "_GetRestoreSettingsPerFramework" does not exist in the project.

[AArnott]

After updating to the latest MSBuild.Sdk.Extras, dotnet restore fails with:

error MSB4057: The target "_GetRestoreSettingsPerFramework" does not exist in the project.

msbuild /restore still works, however.

[clairernovotny]

dotnet-based commands won't work with the extras...they'll always need msbuild. Is that a blocker?

[AArnott]

I don't think it's a blocker, since most of the time I'm using the extras it's with WPF or PCLs which won't build (nicely) off Windows anyway.

It used to work though. Was it an intentional loss when it stopped working? Any chance it could start working again? Building with .NET Core on a docker image is a way to ensure the build always works on every (CI) machine, so I've slowly been moving in that direction.

[clairernovotny]

I don't think it's an intentional change, but it's not a configuration that's tested. The main reason is that all of the tasks brought in by the targets pointed to are based on .NET Framework and don't have .NET Core variants (today). Even net is bringing the full .NET Framework targets, which is how we can support WPF/WCF, etc.

[clairernovotny]

I'd certainly take a PR that fixes it for restore if there's an easy solution.

[AArnott]

Apparently it's not just restore. If I restore in another way, then use dotnet build --no-restore it fails with:

error MSB4057: The target "Build" does not exist in the project.

I don't think I'll take time to look for a way to fix this right now. Maybe sometime if I have time and can't easily enough drop use of dotnet.exe.

[clairernovotny]

What does work is dotnet test foo.csproj --no-build --no-restore on a project that's already built with msbuild that's how I run my unit tests in VSTS.

[AArnott]

Ah, that's good. :)

[clairernovotny]

Here's how I do it for Rx.NET, with code coverage now from the latest SDK's:
https://github.com/dotnet/reactive/blob/master/.vsts.rx-shared.yml

I need one workaround since embedded pdb's aren't yet supported by code coverage, so I have to build again for it :/

[chucklu]

Encounter the same error information when build Newtonsoft.Json project, the solution is to install portable library
JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json#2057 (comment)

[moljac]

also Guava Xamarin.Android builds on windows from XamarinComponents repo