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

how to create VS 2017 pro, asp.net MVC application and build it with Jenkins?

use vs 2017 pro in both dev machine and build server

Check that VisualStudio is set to 15
Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v15.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="false"

set the msbuild tool
to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe in jenkins global configuration manager

With jenkins, execute windows command batch:
retore nugets: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\tools\nuget\NuGet.exe" restore "C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\theapp_build\theapp.sln"

With jenkins, execute windows command batch:
MSBuild Build File: theapp.sln
Command Line Arguments: /nologo /t:restore /t:rebuild /p:Configuration="Debug" /p:VisualStudioVersion=15.0