The "RunMdaInstall" task was not given a value for the required parameter "NpmInstallDir".

[daswat]

Hi
I am new to Cordova app development.

I keep getting the following error when I try to build the default sample project in Visual Studio Community 2015 on Windows 10

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error MSB4044 The "RunMdaInstall" task was not given a value for the required parameter "NpmInstallDir". BlankCordovaApp1 C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\ApacheCordovaTools\vs-mda-targets\Microsoft.MDA.FileMirroring.targets 287

I have reinstalled nodejs as well as apache Cordova tools and still nothing.

Can you help, please.

[MylesBorins]

hey @daswat thanks for posting!

This issue tracker is primarily for tracking bugs and changes on the node.js core. You might have better luck getting an answer on the issue tracker for cordova-cli

I'm going to close this for now.

FWIW I google'd the error and found this stack overflow article --> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32170560/problems-with-cordova-in-vs-2015-error-msb4044-the-runmdainstall-task-was-no

Looks like you might find an answer there too 😄