Project Properties UI showing doubled input controls for Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS

Visual Studio Version: main

Summary:

The UI shows doubled edit controls for selected properties.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open ProjectSystem.sln
2. Enable the preview flag for the new UI
3. Show the project properties for project Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS
4. Navigate to Build | Errors and warnings

Expected Behavior:

Single edit control when value does not vary by configuration.

Actual Behavior:

Doubled edit controls, despite there being no need for doubles

[tmeschter]

Observations:

On my local system, msbuild /p:Configuration=Debug /pp Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS.csproj and msbuild /p:Configuration=Release /pp Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS.csproj produced different results. MSBuild couldn’t find the NuGet-generated .props and .targets files because they didn’t exist for the Release configuration. Running msbuild /t:restore /p:Configuration=Release Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.VS.csproj caused those files to be generated, at which point the preprocessed output was the same (other than the paths to the .props and .targets generated by NuGet), and subsequently opening the property pages no longer showed the duplicated controls.

My guess at the moment is that the missing .props/.targets somehow affects our ability to get the unevaluated value, but not the evaluated value. I will need to investigate further.

[davkean]

@drewnoakes @tmeschter Despite living in a configuration-independent location, The assets file is configuration-dependent, hence why we restore when the configuration changes.