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Cannot convert from 'Cake.Common.Tools.MSBuild.MSBuildSettings' to 'Cake.Common.Tools.DotNetBuildSettings'

See original GitHub issue

Steps to reproduce:

Task("Default")
    .Does(() => 
{
    new MSBuildSettings()
        .WithProperty("foobar", MakeAbsolute(Directory(".")));

});

This will output error message:

error CS1929: Instance argument: cannot convert from 'Cake.Common.Tools.MSBuild.MSBuildSettings' to 'Cake.Common.Tools.DotNetBuildSettings'

Workaround add ToString()

Task("Default")
    .Does(() => 
{
    new MSBuildSettings()
        .WithProperty("foobar", MakeAbsolute(Directory(".")).ToString());

});

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State:
Created 7 years ago
Comments:11 (11 by maintainers)

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2reactions

bjorkstrommcommented, Apr 28, 2016

@devlead Same error, slightly different error message:

error CS1929: 'MSBuildSettings' does not contain a definition for 'WithProperty' and the best 
extension method overload 'DotNetBuildSettingsExtensions.WithProperty(DotNetBuildSettings, 
string, params string[])' requires a receiver of type 'DotNetBuildSettings'

I would however call this an compiler issue. It may be solved by moving DotNetBuildSettings (and aliases) to another namespace than Cake.Common.Tools

0reactions

bjorkstrommcommented, May 19, 2020

DotNetBuild was obsoletet here https://github.com/cake-build/cake/issues/1796 and will be removed with this issue https://github.com/cake-build/cake/issues/2292

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