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I can't get Catel.sln to load its projects

I cloned the catel repo, opened Catel.sln in VS 2019, and switched to master branch. None of the projects load. In the Solution output window I'm getting messages like

\Catel.Tests.TestReferenceC\Catel.Tests.TestReferenceC.csproj : error : The expression "[System.IO.Path]::GetDirectoryName('')" cannot be evaluated. The path is not of a legal form.

for each project in the solution. The message also mentions

.nuget\packages\msbuild.sdk.extras\2.0.54\Sdk\Sdk.props

It looks like the problem is in msbuild.sdk.extras. How do I fix it?

Solution

  • Please check out the section in the readme about building Catel:

    https://github.com/catel/catel#building-catel

    MSBuild.Sdk.Extras is required as sdk for the projects (allows multi-targeting and more). The most important thing is to restore packages. Once packages (especially MSBuild.Sdk.Extras) are restored, it should work as expected.