WCF compilation error on CI server: Microsoft.VisualStudio.ServiceModel.targets not found

Question

I am getting this error on my CI server:

error MSB4019: The imported project \"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\MSBuild\\Microsoft\\VisualStudio\\WCF\\Microsoft.V

Answer 1

Can still happen on vs2019

error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v16.0\WCF\Microsoft.VisualStudio.ServiceModel.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.

WCF is not installed by default as part of 'ASP.NET and web development' workload. To fix this,

On visual studio installer > modify > individual components tab, search for wcf, check, modify - the .targets file gets now installed, msbuild builds ok.

MSBuild auto-detection: using msbuild version '16.3.2.50909' from 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\MSBuild\Current\bin'