Assembly location for Razor SDK Tasks was not specified

Question

My project fails to build on a build server. I recently added a new ASP.Net Core (2.2) MVC project with razor pages. The project and the rest of the solution target the .Net Framework 4.7.2.

In Visual Studio on my dev-machine this works fine, but the build server cannot build it. It shows this error.

C:\Users\tfs-build.nuget\packages\microsoft.aspnetcore.razor.design\2.2.0\build\netstandard2.0\Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Design.CodeGeneration.targets(161):C:\Users\tfs-build.nuget\packages\microsoft.aspnetcore.razor.design\2.2.0\build\netstandard2.0\Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Design.CodeGeneration.targets(161,5): Error : Assembly location for Razor SDK Tasks was not specified. The most likely cause is an older incompatible version of Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor, or Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web used by this project. Please target a newer version of the .NET Core SDK.

I made my coworker install the .Net Core SDK 2.2, since I remembered installing that on the dev-machine to be able to create the project. But this did not help on the buildserver.

What could cause this? Why is the behaviour different from the development environment?

Solution

It worked on the build server, after I added this Nuget package:

Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor

Since I added the Net.SDK.Razor package, it builds successfully.

I had also added Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Design, but only Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor is actually needed.

Comments

[Denis Vitez]

I tried all combinations, and for me adding only Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor works.

[husonos]

It definetly works for me with adding Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor nuget package