TeamCity 9.x - build error cant find valid AspnetMergePath

Question

Im using VS 2015 for all of our projects now, but this one particular web app is using web forms. Should be no big deal, since I can perform a publish locally on my workstation to the test server without issue.

Ive setup TeamCity before but now it seems Im having trouble getting a new instance configured. Using TeamCity 9.1.5 (build 37377), but without Visual Studio on the server.

Code is in a solution created with Visual Studio 2015.

Pretty much going along with these examples http://www.danmusk.com/how-to-build-asp-net-applications-in-teamcity-with-msbuild-tools-2013-and-net-framework-4-5-sdk/

Have installed MSBuild 2015 tools on the server

Upon running the build, I get this:

Microsoft.Web.Publishing.AspNetCompileMerge.targets(132, 5): Can't find the valid AspnetMergePath

My build step looks like this

[update]
I think I might have found the culprit - I looked at the locations where the Windows SDK is supposedly installed and it was very sparse. The aspnetmerge tool was nowhere to be found. Gee, that might be why I get the error?

[ update ]

Using msbuild from the command line, I get Microsoft.Web.Publishing.AspNetCompileMerge.targets(133,5): error : Can't find the valid AspnetMergePath

Also, since starting this tread, Ive installed then Windows 10 SDK. My TeamCity build configuration works now. Ive updated my Microsoft.Web.Publishing.AspNetCompileMerge.targets file with this:

  <Target
      Name="GetAspNetMergePath"
      DependsOnTargets="$(GetAspNetMergePathDependsOn)"
      Condition ="'$(GetAspNetMergePath)' != 'false'">
    <PropertyGroup>
      <TargetFrameworkSDKToolsDirectory>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin\</TargetFrameworkSDKToolsDirectory>    
      <AspnetMergeName>aspnet_merge.exe</AspnetMergeName>
      <AspnetMergePath Condition="Exists('$(TargetFrameworkSDKToolsDirectory)$(AspnetMergeName)')">$(TargetFrameworkSDKToolsDirectory)</AspnetMergePath>
    </PropertyGroup>
    <Error Condition="'$(AspnetMergePath)' == '' Or !Exists($(AspnetMergePath))"
           Text="Can't find the valid AspnetMergePath" />
  </Target>

what's the result if you build and deploy project through MSBuild command directly? — starian chen-MSFT
Based on your update, your issue has been solved, you can post an answer and mark it after 24 hours. — starian chen-MSFT

bitshift bitshift · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-13T12:44:29

See the update in the original post. The server I was trying to build on had very minimal and old SDK's on it. I grabbed the latest Windows 10 SDK, installed and updated the Microsoft.Web.Publishing.AspNetCompileMerge.targets file as shown above. Then restarted both TeamCity services and the build finally worked.

TeamCity 9.x - build error cant find valid AspnetMergePath

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