Build Failure. Error: 'path' cannot be an empty string (“”) or start with the null character

Question

I have a solution that builds fine in VS2015. I just installed VS2017 RTM and after conversion, attempts to build the solution fail immediately with the error:

Answer 1

I ran into this problem with a bad bower.json configuration. Back up the bower.json file and clear the dependencies. See if that removes the error. If so, re-add the dependencies one by one until the problem goes awa