*.dll.licenses file in obj directory not created with msbuild in TeamCity

Question

I am working on upgrading our TeamCity projects from VS2012 to VS2015 and I am running into an issue compiling our MVC application.

Old MSBuild (v4.0.30319.34209) g

Answer 1

I'm using Atlassian Bamboo as our build server but otherwise had exactly the same problem described here. I tried every solution in this thread but couldn't get anything to work. In the end, I used the new version of MSBuild that comes with Visual Studio 2017 and suddenly my licence dll was created correctly. In my case, the MSBuild.exe can be found at:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe