I recently upgraded to Visual Studio 2017. For my WCF-Web-Service projects I have different config files for different publish settings.
When I click on the "Preview Transform" entry in the context menu I get the error message:
The assembly '' containing the transform build task could not be found.
However, if I publish the Service, the transformation is applied.
The curious thing is, I have two development PCs. I upgraded to Vs2017 on both and I get this error on BOTH.
I found the solution. This seems to be a Bug in Visual Studio 17 v15.8.1. Upgrading to v15.8.2 resolves this issue:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes#15.8.2
- Preview Transform gives error. https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/310891/preview-transform-gives-error.html