My build pipeline (Microsoft-hosted agent) has been running every morning for a couple of months but this morning it suddenly failed on the VSBuild task. The error is described as:
"##[error]ASPNETCOMPILER(0,0): Error ASPCONFIG: The CodeDom provider type "Microsoft.VisualC.CppCodeProvider, CppCodeProvider, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" could not be located."
See image of failed build here
How do i fix this?
Not sure if you use private agent. As I know this error could result from the fact that PrecompileBeforePublish property is set to true somewhere in your project.(csproj or publish profile).
As one workaround you can pass /p:PrecompileBeforePublish=false as argument to your VSBuild Task. But this may make first response of your application slow.
Or you can register it into GAC using command like this:
gacutil /i "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\xxxx\VSEditon\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies\CppCodeProvider.dll"
Cause after VS2017, the C++ project support for xsd.exe is deprecated, we need to manually add its assembly into GAC as described here.
