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MSBuild: Building asp.net 4.0 web sites: .metaproj -files

I have a solution-file with ASP.NET Web Sites.

When I build the solution with .NET 4.0 Beta 2 using

"c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.21006\MSBuild.exe" d:\MyPath\MySolution.sln

Everything works fine, no errors. Then I try to build the same solution with CruiseControl .NET task (msbuild-script ran by a service), the same solution fails with:

D:\MyPath\MyWebSite.metaproj (,): errorMSB4025: The project file could not be loaded. Could not find file 'D:\MyPath\MyWebSite.metaproj'.

Of course, there is no file like that. I guess *.metaproj is a .csproj-like msbuild-file generated dynamically for web sites...

But I don't know how to fix the error... I tried to google metaproj-files with no luck. I did try to make the file manually, I inserted a <Project> with <Task Name="Rebuild"> and the compilation didn't raise any errors, but I guess the site didn't compile.

The same machine has .NET 3.5 and .NET 4.0 projects and environment variables for both frameworks.

Solution

  • Visual Studio 2010 final release fixed this bug.