I have been stumped for about 3 days now trying to solve a MSBuild problem I have been having. In my solution I have 10 projects. 9 Projects are C# Class projects and 1 project which is the main EXE is a C# WPF Application project.
I created a gated MSBuild that gets triggered on a check in into the TFS server. Up to now only the 9 C# Class Projects have been included in the MSBuild because the C# WPF Application project was still being built. The C# WPF Application project is now done and fully working (run time and compile time) on multiple computers without issue.
I changed the build to include the new C# WPF Application project so that it could be checked in. The problem is with this C# WPF Application project now included, MSBuild fails with the following two errors:
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.WinFX.targets (269): File 'Properties\DesignTimeResources.xaml' cannot be found.
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.WinFX.targets (269): The project file contains a property value that is not valid.
Considering the entire solution builds and works on multiple computers it seems strange that the MSBuild is failing because of that. If I remove the C# WPF Application project from the MSBuild, everything is fine again so there is something weird with the C# WPF Application project that causes the MSBuild to fail.
I am getting desperate here, so any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for any help or insight you can give!
That looks as if you are including the file ‘Properties\DesignTimeResources.xaml’ in your check in.
If you have previously just been copying or zipping the files around multiple machines, just check to make sure it is included in the files going into TFS.