Upgrade Assistant moves closing Tag of empty Tag-Pair to new line

sigma-schn commented 1 year ago

[ ] Include the log file upgrade-assistant.clef that is produced in the working directory

Describe the bug

After the Upgrade of a net48 WPF project to a net6 WPF project, the closing Tags of empty Tag-Pairs that were in the original csproj-file are moved to a new line. This leads to a not-loadable csproj-file, if the OutputPath-Tag was modified. Example: Prior to upgrade:

<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|AnyCPU'">
    <OutputPath></OutputPath>
  </PropertyGroup>

After Upgrade:

<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|AnyCPU'">
    <OutputPath>
    </OutputPath>
  </PropertyGroup>

This produces the error: [MSB4184] Der Ausdruck "[System.IO.Path]::Combine(******, \)" kann nicht ausgewertet werden. Illegales Zeichen im Pfad. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Preview\MSBuild\Current\Bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets at (322:5)

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Further technical details

Windows version and bitness info (32-bit or 64-bit) Edition Windows 11 Pro Version 21H2 Installiert am ‎29.‎10.‎2021 Betriebssystembuild 22000.856 Leistung Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22000.856.0
Include the output of dotnet --list-sdks 3.1.423 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 5.0.406 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 5.0.408 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 6.0.100 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 6.0.109 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 6.0.202 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 6.0.203 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 6.0.304 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 6.0.400 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
Include the output of upgrade-assistant --version 0.4.346201+71e7f6e92986df688a9ef901343b24c9ad63ccff

brandonh-msft commented 1 year ago

@sigma-schn this seems to be table-stakes for an XML parser & writer so I am surprised it is the cause of your failure. Can you provide a csproj (before conversion) which causes this behavior, by chance? We have migrated many csproj files and not seeing this cause a problem.

I wonder if the root of the issue is that OutputPath is present in the file yet being unused. If you remove it from the source file, what happens? Or is there a particular reason you need it present but empty?

c2dev commented 1 year ago

@brandonh-msft I can confirm that the error is caused by the OutputPath element in the csproj file being separated onto multiple lines. If you remove the line break the csproj file will load just fine in Visual Studio.

This was our project file before running the upgrade assistant:

<PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>net48</TargetFramework>
    <OutputPath></OutputPath>
</PropertyGroup>

After running the upgrade assistant, our project file looked like this:

<PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netstandard20</TargetFramework>
    <OutputPath>
    </OutputPath>
</PropertyGroup>

In order to load the project in Visual Studio, I had to remove the line break. I whole heartedly agree, OutputPath doesn't need to be there since it is blank, but a lot of us have solutions with hundreds of projects that have this in there as empty by default.

Anyway, just confirmation that @sigma-schn is correct in his analysis of the issue.

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