I know the question has been asked before but none of the suggested resolutions are working for me so I\'m going to ask it again and hopefully get new suggestions. Some of t
I figured out what the problem was!
As mentioned to @Gusman I had my warning switch off. Once I turned them on, I got the following displayed for my portable projects:
Warning: IDE0006 - Error encountered while loading the project. Some project
features, such as full solution analysis for the failed project and projects
that depend on it, have been disabled
and it provided a link to this article Diagnosing Project System Build Errors
After following the instructions provided and inspecting the numerous files ending in designtime.log, I noticed that all of them had a FAIL referring to a Nuget package but as mentioned, I had removed all of them from my various project, so I went to re-check the .csproj from one of them and this is when I spotted the problem(s)!
There are actually 2 problems:
The Microsoft.BCL.Build reference for Nuget does not get remove properly!!
When re-adding Microsoft.BCL.Build Nuget package, it does not set the path correctly in the .csproj
Below is an example of the fault:
This project references NuGet package(s) that are missing on this computer. Use NuGet Package Restore to download them. For more information, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=322105. The missing file is {0}.
As you can see the first line i.e. and kept this one:`