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Dotnet format cannot find MSBuild on SDK 7.0.101

See original GitHub issue

It fails with the error message Unable to locate MSBuild. Ensure the .NET SDK was installed with the official installer..

Steps to reproduce:

> docker run --rm -it mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:7.0.101-alpine3.17 sh
/ # mkdir /tmp/test
/ # cd /tmp/test
/tmp/test # dotnet new console
The template "Console App" was created successfully.

Processing post-creation actions...
Restoring /tmp/test/test.csproj:
  Determining projects to restore...
  Restored /tmp/test/test.csproj (in 83 ms).
Restore succeeded.


/tmp/test # dotnet format
Unable to locate MSBuild. Ensure the .NET SDK was installed with the official installer.

Output of dotnet format --version: 7.0.352902+f7beff0efdb20b8f22516d310279204a3fa9ef50

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 9 months ago
Reactions:8
Comments:20 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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badsyntaxcommented, Feb 16, 2023

@craigktreasure i’ve tried with 7.0.103 and it results in the same problem 😦 it would be great to get some feedback from the dotnet devs, do we know they’re even aware of this issue?

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jnoordsijcommented, Feb 22, 2023

Still an issue on the 8.0-preview image as well:

> docker run --rm -it mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:8.0-preview-alpine3.17 sh -c "mkdir /tmp/test && cd /tmp/test && dotnet new console && dotnet format"
The template "Console App" was created successfully.

Processing post-creation actions...
Restoring /tmp/test/test.csproj:
  Determining projects to restore...
  Restored /tmp/test/test.csproj (in 62 ms).
Restore succeeded.


Unable to locate MSBuild. Ensure the .NET SDK was installed with the official installer.

Note that 7.0.200 has no Docker image published yet (see https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-docker/discussions/4434), so can’t test behavior for that.