Web Application Build Error: The CodeDom provider type Microsoft.VisualC.CppCodeProvider could not be located

Question

I\'m building/packing a web application in a build server, and it fails with the following message:

ASPNETCOMPILER error ASPCONFIG: The CodeDom provider t

Answer 1

In my case the issue was that the web config of a parent solution (root level project) in IIS had this in it's web config (by mistake, not sure how it got there). Took a long time to track down, because nothing I could do in my solution/project could affect it in any way.

So might be worth checking the web.config of all that might be involved.