MS-Build 2017 “Microsoft.WebApplication.targets ” is missing

Question

I\'m trying to upgrade our buildserver (jenkins) from Visual Studio 2015 to 2017. We\'re building via MS-Build. I\'ve downloaded and installed MS-Buld tools as described in

Answer 1

Looks like you are missing the workload for "Web development build tools": Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.WebBuildTools.

You can install it by downloading the build tools installer from here (VS2017) or here (VS2019) then running

vs_buildtools.exe --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.WebBuildTools

or opening vs_buildtools.exe and selecting the "Web development build tools" component in the GUI: