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, on a new machine, installed VS2017 and opened an asp.net core 1.1 web application from source control. The error showed up. I installed node.js and the project compiled.