Why can MSBuild not find the CheckRemoteFx45 task?

Question

I'm trying to deploy to IIS using MSBuild. In particular I'm running the following MSBuild command:

msbuild C:\TeamCity\buildAgent\work\49ca329357fce9a6\trunk\Web\Web.csproj /P:Configuration=Debug /P:DeployOnBuild=True /P:DeployTarget=MSDeployPublish /P:MsDeployServiceUrl=https://192.168.1.1/MsDeploy.axd /P:AllowUntrustedCertificate=True /P:MSDeployPublishMethod=WMSvc /P:CreatePackageOnPublish=True /P:UserName=user /P:Password=password /P:DeployIisAppPath=web

It builds the project and then I get the following error:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v12.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets(4715,7): error MSB4062: The "CheckRemoteFx45" task could not be loaded from the assembly C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v12.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.dll. Confirm that the <UsingTask> declaration is correct, that the assembly and all its dependencies are available, and that the task contains a public class that implements Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITask. [C:\TeamCity\buildAgent\work\49ca329357fce9a6\trunk\Web\Web.csproj]

Is there something I need to install? Note this is not the server with IIS on it, this is the server that has Teamcity on it.

Answer 1

Hmm, I'm not sure why you are getting that error.

To workaround it you can set the property _Enable45Check to false and the check should be avoided.

FYI we removed the check all together so if you update to the latest you should be good as well.