Azure pipeline missing references

Question

I'm trying to use the Azure pipelines to build and publish my projects. Unfortunately there is not much documentation or Q&A around.

My solution contains 12 libraries, most with .net core/standard, one with angular (But this is not the problem). In visual studio building/publishing works. In my dev.azure workspace it doesn't.

this is my YAML-file

trigger:
- master

pool:
  vmImage: 'windows-latest'

variables:
  solution: '**/*.sln'
  buildPlatform: 'Any CPU'
  buildConfiguration: 'Release'

steps:
- task: NuGetToolInstaller@0

- task: NuGetCommand@2
  inputs:
    restoreSolution: '$(solution)'

- task: VSBuild@1
  inputs:
    solution: '$(solution)'
    msbuildArgs: '/p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:WebPublishMethod=Package /p:PackageAsSingleFile=true /p:SkipInvalidConfigurations=true /p:PackageLocation="$(build.artifactStagingDirectory)"'
    platform: '$(buildPlatform)'
    configuration: '$(buildConfiguration)'

- task: VSTest@2
  inputs:
    platform: '$(buildPlatform)'
    configuration: '$(buildConfiguration)'

and the problem is, that all the references are missing while building:

Error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'AspNetCore' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

does anyone have any idea on how to fix this? The nuget restore works.

Answer 1

This issue look like about dependencies fail. It should because your project have referenced the dependencies, but did not installed them during the pipeline.

You can try with executing dotnet restore first before calling your VSBuild task.