Database msbuild publish not working from command line

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  •  25-06-2022
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Question

I am trying to Publish a .sqlproj from command line with MSBuild with the command: msbuild /t:Publish [MySqlProjPath] but i get the following error:

error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\SSDT\Microsoft.Data.Tools.Schema.SqlTasks.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.

What i find weird is that from Visual Studio 2012 i can Publish the same project successfully. Does Visual Studio set any magical msbuild property before publishing to get the .targets file from another directory?

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Solution

You should pass the following argument to MSBuild:

/p:VisualStudioVersion=11.0 /t:Rebuild;Publish

This tells msbuild to use VS2012 targets.

Passing VisualStudioVersion is required hence VS2010 and Vs2012 can share the same project file: i.e. project file does not store target VS version inside itself

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