How to fix the error - The target "_CopyBinDeployableAssemblies" does not exist in the project?

Question

I am trying to build a project that was created with MVC 4.0. There were errors with 'AllowAnonymous' attribute, because the build server did not have MVC 4.0 installed. So, I started installing MVC 4.0, but the setup prompted me to install Visual Studio 10.0 SP1 first, so I installed VS 10.0 SP1 and then installed MVC 4.0. The errors related to 'AllowAnonymous' attribute went away after the next build. But now I am getting an error which says - The target "_CopyBinDeployableAssemblies" does not exist in the project.I have tried a couple of solutions found on stack overflow that suggested

1. Importing the project Microsoft.Application.Web.Targets and Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Targets.
2. Install/Repair using the exe at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=253458.

But nothing has worked so far.

Please help me.

Answer 1

I managed to resolve this error by adding an empty targets tag in the .csproj file for the project:

<Target Name="_CopyBinDeployableAssemblies"></Target>

Found this on stackoverflow itelf in the response to a similar question:

Why do I get the error "The target GatherAllFilesToPublish does not exist"?