Error on rebuild with Visual Studio 17.3.2+

[IvanMarkDebono]

Problem with a Blazor server-side app. The csproj has the following:

<PropertyGroup> <PrepareForBuildDependsOn>WebCompile</PrepareForBuildDependsOn> </PropertyGroup>

Describe the bug
When rebuilding with Visual Studio 17.3.2, the rebuild fails with the following errors:

MSB4057 The target "WebCompile" does not exist in the project.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\amd64\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets 1193

The "WebCompiler.CompilerBuildTask" task could not be loaded from the assembly C:\Users\xxx.nuget\packages\buildwebcompiler2022\1.14.13\build..\tools\net4.8\WebCompiler.exe. Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Users\xxx.nuget\packages\buildwebcompiler2022\1.14.13\tools\net4.8\WebCompiler.exe' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. Confirm that the declaration is correct, that the assembly and all its dependencies are available, and that the task contains a public class that implements Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITask.

Expected behavior
The rebuild should be successful with the latest versions of Visual Studio.

[failwyn]

@IvanMarkDebono was this working on the previous release?

[IvanMarkDebono]

Yes it used to work.

However I noticed that the project referenced the BuildBundleMinifier and BuildWebCompiler2022 nuget packages. I removed those and it looks like it is working fine now.

Maybe that was the problem.

[failwyn]

@IvanMarkDebono keep me updated if it happens again, maybe it was just a one time upgrade issue...

[failwyn]

I just redeployed, I forgot that Visual Studio builds the nuget package incorrectly and I have to manually fix it... It puts the WebCompiler.exe in a folder called net48 and the rest of the files in a folder net4.8, then when it tries to load it, it looks in net4.8, so I have to manually move the file after every build...