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

I ran into this same error. In my case, the problem was that my Visual Studio 2008 project didn't get upgraded correctly, probably due to files being marked "read-only" by my source control. To fix it, I loaded the solution in Visual Studio 2015 with everything checked out.

The specific line in the .csproj file changed from

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