On a Windows machine there is a GitLab-Runner run from a domain user with admin rights. When I log as this user and call dotnet build -c release to build an ASP.NET Core app, the dll has all the information from the AssemblyInfo.cs file. When I do the same as part of a CI job, the produced dll is missing all this information (for example the version number).
The AssemblyInfo.cs file is not part of the repository, instead, it is produced by a prebuild event (using gitWCRev.exe tool). However after running some tests I can see that the AssemblyInfo.cs is actually generated when the job is run by the runner.
Any help as to why the file is ignored and how to overcome this issue would be appreciated.
At first I thought that this might be related to Pre-build task of Visual Studio project fails in GitLab Runner issue, but I don't get any build errors.
On the same machine, I build a .Net Framework app which has the same AssemblyInfo setup, but is compiled using msbuild /property:Configuration=Release by the runner and the produced dll file has all the expected information.
It turns out the problem was partially related to the AssemblyInfo.cs file not being part of the repository.
SDK-style csproj normally don't list the files in the project, but figure them out based on the folder contents. When dotnet build was run, AssemblyInfo.cs wasn't present in the project directory (GitLab-Runner usually clears out files not present in the repository before starting a job/pipeline), so build tools had no idea they needed to load it. It made no difference that the file was being created by the build tools.
The solution proved to be creating an empty AssemblyInfo.cs file before running dotnet build. This way build tools knew they needed to compile it. Actual compilation still happened after prebuild events, so all the needed information was there.
I created the empty AssemblyInfo.cs file using PowerShell:
New-Item -Path "Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs" -ItemType File
Also, checking the build logs helped me finally figure it out. To get the build logs I've called build tools like this:
dotnet build -c release /flp:v=diag
The .Net Framework app didn't have this problem because it wasn't an SDK-style project. All the files needed for compilation were listed in the project file and build tools knew to load them, even if they were created during the prebuild event.
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I am working on an ASP.NET Web API 2 project with .NET target framework 4.6.1. I am trying to setup github workflow for my repo. When the dotnet restore command is run, it throws an error like below.
I am getting the same error if I run the same command in from command prompt inside my project. Also if I run dotnet build, it shows below error.
The project builds fine from Visual Studio but not working from command line or github workflow yml. Can anyone please point me on what am I missing?
The project builds fine from Visual Studio but not working from command line
Check which sln file Visual Studio is using to build your project.
Since I don't see any sln/csproj in your GitHub repository, it is also possible that you have a .gitignore which would prevent adding those in the first place.
DOTNET Restore does not support pacakges.config https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-restore
So you have to move the nuget package references to csproj file itself
Here is a great comment on how to do that https://stackoverflow.com/a/65701746/8318698
Note: check that if multiple projectGuid is there on csproj at the end of the steps
After that you will be able to use dotnet restore without a hitch.
I have an Azure DevOps GIT Repo with three different types of projects. Structure looks as follows;
Repository Structure
I have a Build Pipeline (Classic, not YAML) to build only the .Net Core Project as below.
Pipeline
The pipeline settings is pointed to consider only the NetCoreProject. The Restore, Build & Test tasks executes successfully. However, when it comes to the 'Publish' task the pipeline fails as it considers the entire repository (all projects) and not just NetCoreProject.
Actual cause of failure is in NetCPPProject folder there are some files without any extension (makefile, shortcut files, etc.) which the Publish task is not identifying and failing with below error.
##[error]Error: Failed find: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat 'D:\a\1\s\NetCPPProject\inc'
Note: inc is a shortcut file (without any extension) and it is required to be present in the folder.
I tried following which did not work;
Added .artifactignore to ignore other folders but the .Net Core 'Publish' task seems not to consider that.
Tried specifying the arguments to Publish tasks to consider only the NetCoreProject .sln file and also .csproj file, but issue still occurs with same error message.
Reconfirmed the file exists in Build.SourceDirectory with a command line task.
Question is, how to make .Net Core 'Publish' task to exclude NetCPPProject and only consider NetCoreProject?
how to make .Net Core 'Publish' task to exclude NetCPPProject and only consider NetCoreProject?
To achieve this goal, you could try the following steps:
Step1: Disable Publish web projects option in Dotnet Publish task.
Step2: Set the target csproj file in Path to project field
For example:
Repo:
Result:
I'm building an asp.net application using VScode, scaffolding areas using "aspnet-codegenerator" command always fail because of missing files.
I tried to uninstall the tool and reinstall it again, but still the same error
Firstly, please try to check if MvcControllerWithContext.cshtml file does exist under that folder mentioned in error.
Templates file path on my computer
C:\Users\user_name_here\.nuget\packages\microsoft.visualstudio.web.codegenerators.mvc\verison_here(such as 3.1.4)\Templates\ControllerGenerator
Besides, if you indeed installed the dotnet-aspnet-codegenerator tool, but error still occurs, you can try this workaround:
copy Templates/ControllerGenerator and Templetes/ViewGenerator to the project folder
then rebuild the project and run your dotnet aspnet-codegenerator command to generate controller and view etc.
I have a web app in dot net along with other projects. when i open the .sln file and publish the web project, it does. But, when I try to publish the web proj using command line and .csproj, it gives an error. "Nothing to do. None of the projects specified contain packages to restore."
I got this after converting my csproj to vs2019 format and running dotnet test. The solution was to ensure i had the right test adapter and framework. My csproj files had both the old Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework reference and the new MSTest.TestAdapter + MSTest.TestFramework + Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk.
I kept the new ones and my tests were run.
I had this problem in a batch file I use to build a UWP component for release. The build command is
%MSBUILD% CartoType\src\main\single_library\uwp\CartoType\CartoType.sln -p:Configuration=Release;Platform=x64
where %MSBUILD% is the full path to msbuild. I first added an msbuild command with the -t:restore option and got the message reported by the original poster ('Nothing to do. None of the projects specified contain packages to restore').
The solution was to add this command before the command given above:
%MSBUILD% CartoType\src\main\single_library\uwp\CartoType\CartoType.sln -p:RestorePackagesConfig=true -t:restore
We are attempting to install a clean build of the newest version of Kentico (12) on Azure, using Kudu, in DEBUG configuration. We traditionally accomplish this by setting SCM_BUILD_ARGS to -p:Configuration=Debug, and all is well. But for some reason in this newer version, the project fails to compile, and I see that this is the command being run:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe" "C:\Users\User\Documents\GitHub\Project\CMS\CMSApp.csproj" /nologo /verbosity:m /t:Build /t:pipelinePreDeployCopyAllFilesToOneFolder /p:_PackageTempDir="C:\local\Temp\8d6d315018f5ff9";AutoParameterizationWebConfigConnectionStrings=false;Configuration=Release;UseSharedCompilation=false /p:SolutionDir="C:\Users\User\Documents\GitHub\Project\.\\" -p:Configuration=Debug
Notice both Configuration=Release and Configuration=Debug. The compilation errors are things like Invalid expression term 'string' on the following line of code:
bool licenseOK = LicenseHelper.CheckLicenseLimitations(FeatureEnum.Ecommerce, out int skuCount, out int maxSKUCount);
This doesn't highlight at all in Visual Studio in Debug or Release mode. I am also able to reproduce locally (as shown in my paths above), and if I change the two configurations to both be the same (regardless of whether I choose Debug or Release), it compiles just fine.
What I know I can do is create my own custom deployment command script file as a work-around, but I guess I don't understand why the above MSBUILD command isn't working in the first place.
Any ideas as to why this would work great for all of my ASP.NET projects prior to this one? One thing I know is that Kentico recently included the Roslyn compiler, which I am unfortunately not that familiar with - could that be part of the issue?
UPDATE #1: It appears all of the compilation errors have to do with code that is only valid in C# 7.0. That could be a clue.
It all came down to the fact that the newer versions of Kentico had code that was only valid in C# 7, and required MSBuild 15 to compile. Here's how I was able to set up Kudu:
Add a file named .deployment in the root of my repo, containing only the contents below. This tells Kudu to use a custom deployment script.
Download the deploy.cmd file from my Azure App Service via FTP to the root of my repo, and update it per https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/issues/2350#issuecomment-373817740 to use the MSBuild 15 path. Details below.
.deployment file contents
[config]
command = deploy.cmd
deploy.cmd updates
1 - Add -MSBuildPath "%MSBUILD_15_DIR%" to nuget call. Example:
nuget.exe restore "{your .sln file path}" -MSBuildPath "%MSBUILD_15_DIR%"
2 - Replace %MSBUILD_PATH% with %MSBUILD_15_DIR%\MSBuild.exe in both occurrences under step 2. Build to the temporary path
This was all that was needed in order to get the build to complete.
As Keith mentions, it was a compatibility issue with C# 7.0 that Kentico 12 uses. This SO thread mentions that you need to run MSBuild version 15 for C# 7.0 code. I ran a similar debug command for my local Kentico 12 project using MSBuild 15, and it succeeded.