What causes the error: The "NgenLocalized" parameter is not supported - visual-studio

Question

My project is a Visual Studio Extension. The solution contains multiple projects and references multiple NuGet packages.
On building the solution, I am getting the two errors:
error MSB4064: The "NgenLocalized" parameter is not supported by the
"GenerateFileManifest" task. Verify the parameter exists on the task,
and it is a settable public instance property.
error MSB4063: The "GenerateFileManifest" task could not be
initialized with its input parameters.
The complete errors are:
C:\Users\Phil\.nuget\packages\microsoft.vssdk.buildtools\16.3.2093\tools\VSSDK\Microsoft.VsSDK.targets(685,88): error MSB4064: The "NgenLocalized" parameter is not supported by the "GenerateFileManifest" task. Verify the parameter exists on the task, and it is a settable public instance property.
C:\Users\Phil\.nuget\packages\microsoft.vssdk.buildtools\16.3.2093\tools\VSSDK\Microsoft.VsSDK.targets(685,5): error MSB4063: The "GenerateFileManifest" task could not be initialized with its input parameters.
I get these errors build a release or a debug build.
What do these error mean and how can I get rid of them?
Strangely, if I simply start debugging, it builds without the errors and starts visual studio. However, in that case, I cannot load my package.
The activity log shows the error:
SetSite failed for package [MultiLanguagePackage]
Source: "MultiLanguageWPF"
Description: Method not found: "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Threading.JoinableTaskFactory Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.AsyncPackage.get_JoinableTaskFactory()".
System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Threading.JoinableTaskFactory Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.AsyncPackage.get_JoinableTaskFactory()".
at MultiLanguageWPF.MultiLanguagePackage.<InitializeAsync>d__2.MoveNext()
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncTaskMethodBuilder.Start[TStateMachine](TStateMachine& stateMachine)
at MultiLanguageWPF.MultiLanguagePackage.InitializeAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken, IProgress`1 progress)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.AsyncPackage.<>c__DisplayClass19_0.<<Microsoft-VisualStudio-Shell-Interop-IAsyncLoadablePackageInitialize-Initialize>b__1>d.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.VsTask.RethrowException(AggregateException e)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.VsTask.InternalGetResult(Boolean ignoreUIThreadCheck)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.VsTask.GetResult()</description>
That might be a related error, or it might not be.

Answer 1

error MSB4064: The "NgenLocalized" parameter is not supported by the
"GenerateFileManifest" task. Verify the parameter exists on the task,
and it is a settable public instance property.
error MSB4063: The "GenerateFileManifest" task could not be
initialized with its input parameters.
Can't reproduce exactly same issue in my machine cause I lack the necessary enough info about your project. But I guess maybe this's one issue about the Microsoft.VSSDK.BuildTools package with 16.3.2093 version.
Some tests and discovery:
Msbuild use targets to manage the build process. We can consider msbuild target as the group of msbuild tasks. The task is a unit of executable code used by MSBuild to perform atomic build operations.
I opened the Microsoft.VsSDK.targets(version ) file at line 685 and found content below:
<Target Name="GenerateFileManifest"
Outputs="$(FileManifest)"
DependsOnTargets="$(GenerateFileManifestDependsOn)">
<GenerateFileManifest FileItems="#(VsixSourceItem)" FileManifest="$(FileManifest)" NgenLocalized="$(NgenLocalized)">
<Output TaskParameter="FileManifest" ItemName="FileWrites" />
</GenerateFileManifest>
</Target>
So it's obvious during build process of your vsix project, it will call GenerateFileManifest target, and this target will call and execute GenerateFileManifest task.
See this and we can better understand what the task means and what it really does for us during build process. To execute the GenerateFileManifest task actually is similar to call the method from GenerateFileManifest class. And according to FileItems="xxx" FileManifest="xxx" NgenLocalized="xxx" these three input parameters, this GenerateFileManifest class should have three public property. (While it actually doesn't have public property NgenLocalized defined in GenerateFileManifest class)
Then another line in Microsoft.VsSDK.targets file indicates this class from assembly $(VsSDKCommonAssemblyFile), it's actually Microsoft.VisualStudio.Sdk.BuildTasks.dll in the same folder. (C:\Users\xxx\.nuget\packages\microsoft.vssdk.buildtools\16.3.2093\tools\VSSDK\)
<UsingTask TaskName="FindVsixManifest" AssemblyFile="$(VsSDKCommonAssemblyFile)" />
After view the structure of this assembly, I can't find the expected NgenLocalized public property. So it's the original cause of the issue in my opinion.
Suggestions:
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I think this issue comes from the 16.3.2093 package, the Microsoft.VsSDK.targets is not compatible perfectly with the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Sdk.BuildTasks.dll. So I think you can use previous version of this package.(16.2.3073 or earlier, in my machine I use 16.1.3132 version actually and it works well)
Hope it helps:)