Advice about msbuild task warnings

I’m trying to make sense of some of the warnings dotnet-format is spitting out. This is on a solution containing .net core projects, using SDK 3.1.101 on macOS.

When I run dotnet-format on my solution, I get:

Formatting code files in workspace '/Users/ryan/github.com/<path to>.sln.
  Warnings were encountered while loading the workspace. Set the verbosity option to the 'diagnostic' level to log warnings.
  Format complete in 5610ms.

When I rerun with -v diag I get:

Formatting code files in workspace '/Users/ryan/github.com/<pathtosln>.sln'.
  Loading workspace.
  Msbuild failed when processing the file '/Users/ryan/github.com/<projectname>' with message: /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/3.1.101/Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets: (1540, 5): The "Microsoft.Build.Tasks.ResolveNonMSBuildProjectOutput" task could not be loaded from the assembly Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Core, Version=15.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a.  Confirm that the <UsingTask> declaration is correct, that the assembly and all its dependencies are available, and that the task contains a public class that implements Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITask.
  Found project reference without a matching metadata reference: /Users/ryan/github.com/dotnet/<projectname>
  Msbuild failed when processing the file '/Users/ryan/github.com/<projectname>' with message: /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/3.1.101/Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets: (1540, 5): The "ResolveNonMSBuildProjectOutput" task was not found. Check the following: 1.) The name of the task in the project file is the same as the name of the task class. 2.) The task class is "public" and implements the Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITask interface. 3.) The task is correctly declared with <UsingTask> in the project file, or in the *.tasks files located in the "/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/3.1.101" directory.
  Found project reference without a matching metadata reference: /Users/ryan/github.com/dotnet/<projectname>
  Found project reference without a matching metadata reference: /Users/ryan/github.com/<projectname>
  Msbuild failed when processing the file '/Users/ryan/github.com/<projectname>' with message: /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/3.1.101/Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets: (1540, 5): The "ResolveNonMSBuildProjectOutput" task was not found. Check the following: 1.) The name of the task in the project file is the same as the name of the task class. 2.) The task class is "public" and implements the Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITask interface. 3.) The task is correctly declared with <UsingTask> in the project file, or in the *.tasks files located in the "/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/3.1.101" directory.
  Found project reference without a matching metadata reference: /Users/ryan/github.com/<projectname>
  Found project reference without a matching metadata reference: /Users/ryan/github.com/<projectname>
  Found project reference without a matching metadata reference: /Users/ryan/github.com/<projectname>
  Complete in 4307ms.
  Determining formattable files.
  Complete in 985ms.
  Running formatters.
  Complete in 518ms.
  Formatted 0 of 106 files.
  Format complete in 5816ms.

[lihuanglx]

I also encountered the issue:

The "Microsoft.Build.Tasks.ResolveNonMSBuildProjectOutput" task could not be loaded from the assembly Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Core

Upgrading dotnet to 3.1.202 resolved this.

I’m using latest version of both Mac and Ubuntu.

[rainersigwald]

@jmarolf yeah, add a new Microsoft.Build.Logging.BinaryLogger() to

https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/441c154b27eafc9ed04feda1786f0f07ce448f14/src/Workspaces/Core/MSBuild/MSBuild/Build/ProjectBuildManager.cs#L171

The examples in our unit tests use a lot of helper methods and aren’t super clear, unfortunately, and the way we hook it up in msbuild.exe is also not particularly informative. Holler if you have questions.