Build fails until Task Runner Explorer is opened in Visual Studio 2017

RobinHSanner commented 6 years ago

Installed product versions

Visual Studio: Visual Studio 2017
This extension: 1.4.81

Description

Given:

VS 2017 solution with node.js project
npm task runner is configured to run install on build
second project with a dependency (via VS solution) on the node.js project
Clone (note at this time there will not be a node_modules directory
Build. Build fails with error: Build:Cannot find type definition file for 'node'.
Click 'Task Runner Explorer' tab
Do build again and now NpmTaskRunner runs npm install and everything is fine

Current behavior

have to click on 'Task Runner Explorer' tab in Visual Studio in order for build to succeed

Expected behavior

Shouldn't have to click the tab housing 'Task Runner Explorer' for it to properly run on build

georgekolb commented 6 years ago

You are probably missing the following file: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v15.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets Create the necessary folders down to the above and copy the file from C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets

It's unclear why this file wasn't included with Visual Studio 2017.

RobinHSanner commented 6 years ago

That was in fact missing, thank you. Is the task runner install supposed to position that or was it something else?

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