Dependency tree can show yellow triange on group when no triangle exists within group

[drewnoakes]

Use the following project:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>
    <CollectUpToDateCheckInputDesignTimeDependsOn>$(CollectUpToDateCheckInputDesignTimeDependsOn);DoesNotExist</CollectUpToDateCheckInputDesignTimeDependsOn>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="METADATAEXTRACTOR" Version="2.4.3" />
  </ItemGroup>

</Project>

NOTE:

• The package ID is in the wrong case. The canonical version is MetadataExtractor, in Pascal case.
• The CollectUpToDateCheckInputDesignTimeDependsOn property points at a non-existent target, which causes the design-time build to fail.

Steps:

1. Open the project in VS. The design-time build will fail as described. The dependencies tree shows yellow triangles everywhere:
2. Comment out the CollectUpToDateCheckInputDesignTimeDependsOn property to fix the design time build and save the .csproj file, triggering the project to re-evaluate and re-build.
3. Note that all yellow triangles disappear everywhere except the Packages and Dependencies nodes. Expanding these will not attribute the warning to any given dependency.

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This seems like a convoluted series of steps, but I've seen this occasionally in our repo. CPS provides the following two packages:

• Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.SDK
• Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Sdk.Tools (different capitalisation of SDK vs Sdk)

In this repo we reference:

• Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.SDK
• Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.SDK.Tools (same capitalisation, but non-canonical)