sdk: Microsoft.DotNet.Props was not found

Steps to reproduce

Build MusicStore sample

Expected behavior

No error

Actual behavior

Build started 11/11/2016 10:13:07 AM. 1>Project “C:\temp\MusicStore-dev\samples\MusicStore\MusicStore.xproj” on node 1 (Build target(s)). 1>C:\temp\MusicStore-dev\samples\MusicStore\MusicStore.xproj(7,3): error MSB4019: The imported project “C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\sdk\1.0.0-preview4-004071\Extensions\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\DotNet\Microsoft.DotNet.Props” was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk. 1>Done Building Project “C:\temp\MusicStore-dev\samples\MusicStore\MusicStore.xproj” (Build target(s)) – FAILED.

Build FAILED.

   "C:\temp\MusicStore-dev\samples\MusicStore\MusicStore.xproj" (Build target) (1) ->
     C:\temp\MusicStore-dev\samples\MusicStore\MusicStore.xproj(7,3): error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\sdk\1.0.0-preview4-004071\Extensions\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\DotNet\Microsoft.DotNet.Props" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.

0 Warning(s)
1 Error(s)## Environment data

dotnet --info output: C:\temp\MusicStore-dev\samples\MusicStore>dotnet --info .NET Command Line Tools (1.0.0-preview4-004071)

Product Information: Version: 1.0.0-preview4-004071 Commit SHA-1 hash: 9855dc0088

Runtime Environment: OS Name: Windows OS Version: 10.0.14393 OS Platform: Windows RID: win10-x86

dotnet_error__msb4019

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 8 years ago
Comments: 31 (5 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

@theShiva my guess is that you installed a new CLI (1.0.1) and you are trying to open a project without global.json pinning the version of the CLI to what you need for VS2015 (preview2). So, add a global.json to the root of your repo, with

{
  "sdk": {
    "version": "your_preview2_cli_version"
  }
}

Basically, VS2015 only works with CLI preview2. VS2017 needs at least CLI 1.0.0.

+19

livarcocc on Mar 15, 2017

Hi, something like that works for me:

global.json file

{
  "projects": [ "src", "test" ],
  "sdk": {
    "version": "1.0.0-preview2-1-003177"
  }
}

My sdk directory: capture

You can download the sdk from this page: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/download-archives/1.1-preview2.1-download.md

mharasimowiczcontrolexpert on Mar 20, 2017

Okay so I just had this issue which stumped me for a few days. I was downloading the latest SDK from Microsoft (1.0.3) and using the global.json as specified here but, I needed to use preview, in my case and not the latest and it worked!

{
  "sdk": {
    "version": "1.0.0-preview2-003131"
  }
}

Hope it helps someone.

Philyorkshire on May 5, 2017

@liuzexiazbx in folder where you have sln file, create global.json file with content described above by @livarcocc , eg:

{
  "sdk": {
    "version": "your_preview2_cli_version"
  }
}

psulek on Mar 17, 2017

Update – I actually got it to work. I had to delete all other versions of dotnet from my /usr/local/share/dotnet and its subdirectories (on macOS).

Compiling myproject for .NETCoreApp,Version=v1.0

Compilation succeeded.
    0 Warning(s)
    0 Error(s)

Time elapsed 00:00:01.0217817

osman-masood on Apr 11, 2017

I’m using dotnet CLI 1.0.1, with .NET Core 1.0.3 SDK Preview 2 build 3156, and have a global.json file similar to @mharasimowiczcontrolexpert’s above, but am getting this error:

~/me/myproject => dotnet restore
/Users/me/myproject/myproject.xproj(7,3): error MSB4019: The imported project "/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/1.0.1/
Microsoft/VisualStudio/v14.0.25420/DotNet/Microsoft.DotNet.Props" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.

This is my global.json:

{
  "projects": [ "src", "test" ],
  "sdk": {
    "version": "1.0.0-preview2-003121"
  }
}

Am I to understand that I cannot get past this error unless I upgrade to .NET Core 1.1.0 SDK Preview 2.1 build 3177?

Thanks.

osman-masood on Apr 11, 2017

None of this is working for me. Is there a valid instruction page that someone can share? I just wonder when will Microsoft start producing something other than garbage?

ndenkha on Mar 20, 2017

thanks you for reply.I have done with above, .but still wrong

liuzexiazbx on Mar 17, 2017

Have you migrated this project to csproj? The msbuild based CLI does not support xproj. If you migrate your projet, we will create an equivalent csproj for it and move your project.json and xproj to a backup folder.

Please, re-activate if that doesn’t solve your problem.

livarcocc on Nov 11, 2016