I'm trying to build a job for Xamarin.forms project in mac terminal without UI method. but, not sure which are the tools are mandatory to be installed. Could anyone help here ?
Installed : Dotnet Core 6 version of visual studio SDK
Build need to be fully in terminal(mac-command line)
Need to do without visual studio application
Why not try build the app from the command line using MSBuild and see what errors it gives you. That way, you can find out what's missing and add things until it builds.
I'm using this command to build my apps from Windows (you may need to change a few things on Mac):
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Professional\MSBuild\Current\Bin\amd64\msbuild.exe" C:\Projects\MyApp\src\MyApp\MyApp.iOS\MyApp.iOS.csproj /p:Platform=iPhone /p:BuildIpa=true /p:IpaPackageDir=C:\Projects\MyApp\artifacts\App_iOS /p:IpaPackageName=MyApp.ipa /p:ServerAddress=192.168.0.23 /p:ServerUser="Username" /p:ServerPassword=123456SafePassword /p:ContinueOnDisconnected=false /p:Configuration=Release /restore /target:Build /verbosity:Normal
Here's some useful info on Continuous Integration with Xamarin.
Here the repro steps:
Start VS 2017
Create a cross-platform project ==> Sample.sln
Build it in VS ==> Ok
By building with it with the command "msbuild Sample.sln" I get 4 times the following error message: error MSB4066: The attribute "Version" in element "PackageReference" is unrecognized.
Anything missing in the .csproj files I am supposed to add?
Thanks in advance for your support.
Make sure that you use the path to msbuild.exe that is installed with Visual Studio. Use the Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio 2017 if unsure, it has the PATH set up so that msbuild will point to the right executable.
This error happy when you use an old version of MSBuild (e.g. the version included in .NET Framework) that doesn't support the necessary features - metadata as attributes in this case.
I have a problem with autocompletion in VS 2017 Community.
Previously I had VS 2017 Enterprise from school, but the key expired so I moved to Community.
Before, everything works great, but now it doesn't work at all.
I found a solution on Stack Overflow here but it doesn't work, so found another solution at GitHub here.
And I got this:
Build FAILED.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(1601,5): error MSB4036:
The "GetReferenceNearestTargetFrameworkTask" task was not found. Check the following:
1.) The name of the task in the project file is the same as the name of the task class.
2.) The task class is "public" and implements the Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITask interface.
3.) The task is correctly declared with in the project file, or in the *.tasks files located in the
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin" directory.
0 Warning(s)
1 Error(s)
Time Elapsed 00:00:00.11
Do you know what to do next?
I had the same error message but for a different problem.
So, I'm using MSBuild to automate build/deploy process for Azure Functions. Everything was working fine until I updated both Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio Build Tools 2017 at which point I started getting this error. To be precise I got this error only when using MSBuild, building project manually from VS was working fine.
In my case I already had everything set as per #Programmer's answer.
But as I was using MSBuild it turned out that I also had to install NuGet targets and build tasks which are part of Visual Studio Build Tools.
Follow these to fix that error. This applies to VS 2017:
Fix 1:
1.Install Nuget PackageManager from here.
2.Restart Visual Studio.
If the problem is still there, continue below
Fix 2:
1.Download and start/run the Visual Studio Installer again.
2.While the Visual Studio Installer is still running, go to the "Individual Components" tab
3.Tick the "NuGet package manager" check-box that is under "Code tools" option.
4.Click Install to install it.
Screenshot of where this is located:
That should fix the error you see in this question. Restart Visual Studio and test the auto-completion function. If it's not working, see the answers from this question as that is a whole different issue.
I was seeing this issue with msbuild 15.6.82 on a build environment that does not have VisualStudio 2017, only VS Build Tools.
Here's a PowerShell script that resolves this issue, it pretty much does the equivalent of previous answers in the VS Installer, but silently and waiting for completion.
Start-Process "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vs_installer.exe" -ArgumentList 'modify --installPath "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools" --quiet --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.NuGet.BuildTools --add Microsoft.Net.Component.4.5.TargetingPack --norestart --force' -Wait -PassThru
I'm working with a headless build server on server core, resolved by installing chocolatey package choco install visualstudio2017-workload-webbuildtools from here:
https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=msbuild
I'm reporting an answer from a Microsoft techician
This usually indicates one of two things:
A failed VS installation. If that's the case, I would recommend running a repair on your VS install.
You have msbuild assemblies in the GAC. If that's the case, please ungac them.
Livar Cunha [MSFT]
I got the same problem in Visual Studio 2019, I solved it by simply install unity package
I have a Xamarin-based solution in Visual Studio 2015. One of the projects is an Android native shared library containing C++ code.
When I build the solution from within VS 2015 IDE, everything works as expected. However, when I try to build the solution from the command line I get an error.
The build command is:
msbuild mytest.sln /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=ARM /t:Rebuild
The error I get is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V120\Microsoft.Cpp.Platform.targets(64,5): error MSB8020: The build tools for Clang_3_8 (Platform Toolset = 'Clang_3_8') cannot be found. To build using the Clang_3_8 build tools, please install Clang_3_8 build tools. Alternatively, you may upgrade to the current Visual Studio tools by selecting the Project menu or right-click the solution, and then selecting "Upgrade Solution...".
My Visual Studio 2015 has all the updates applied. Wondering if anyone knows what the problem could be. Is it a path problem? Regards.
Turned out it is a path problem. Make sure to use the developer command prompt link under Program Files-->Visual Studio 2015->Visual Studio Tools. This batch file sets up proper paths, including the one for clang.
I have a clean install of Visual Studio 2010 with C# and F# installed and I am getting the following error when I try to open the solution cloned from github.
D:\projects\VsVim\VsVim\VsVim.csproj :
error : The project file
'D:\projects\VsVim\VsVim\VsVim.csproj'
cannot be opened.
The project type is not supported by
this installation.
Is there a way to get more information about what exactly I am missing so that I can install the components?
You probably need to install the Visual Studio 2010 SDK.
Noah is correct that the most likely problem is you need to install the Visual Studio SDK. The full steps to getting VsVim to open and compile are the following (taken from the README.txt file in the enlistment).
Install the Visual Studio SDK
Run the script Populate-References.ps1 from the enlistment root directory
Open the Solution.