Web Application Build Error: The CodeDom provider type Microsoft.VisualC.CppCodeProvider could not be located

Question

I\'m building/packing a web application in a build server, and it fails with the following message:

ASPNETCOMPILER error ASPCONFIG: The CodeDom provider t

Answer 1

This started happening when I updating to VS2017. The problem for me was node.js, if I deleted the node_modules folder then the project would build without errors. It turns out that changing the value of MvcBuildViews to false in the csproj file as suggested by anders here fixes it. This isn't ideal though since mvc views won't be compiled until IIS renders them. Personally, I just hide the node_modules folder to get around the issue but I wanted to add this answer in case it helps shed some light on the underlying issue for someone else.

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