Peachpie Error: ProjectName.msbuildproj(22,3): error MSB4020: The value "" of the "Project" attribute in element is invalid.

Just this morning while drinking 2 cups of my favorite Nescafe Decaf and Alaska Krem-Top, I created my first Peachpie project.

I'm using dotnet version 2.0.0-preview2-006497 and I started installing templates for peachpie by typing dotnet new -i Peachpie.Templates::* .

Then I began to create a new Peachpie console application by simply typing dotnet new peachpie-console. And I got a message that says The template "Peachpie console application" was created successfully.

But when I ran the dotnet restore command, I got the following error message:

ProjectName.msbuildproj(22,3): error MSB4020: The value "" of the "Project" attribute in element <Import> is invalid.

And obviously I cannot run the command dotnet run until I fix the build error.

I will try to find the reason what happened and I'll update this post as soon as I can.

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Finally, I found a solution to this error! 


I simply edited/replaced the default msbuildproj file with the following:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp1.1</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <Compile Include="**/*.php" />
  </ItemGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <DotNetCliToolReference Include="Peachpie.Compiler.Tools" Version="0.7.0-*" />
    <PackageReference Include="Peachpie.NET.Sdk" Version="0.7.0-*" PrivateAssets="Build" />
  </ItemGroup>

  <!-- A temporary solution, import C# Visual Studio design time targets in order to be able to load the project in Visual Studio -->  
  <PropertyGroup>
    <CSharpDesignTimeTargetsPath Condition="'$(CSharpDesignTimeTargetsPath)'==''">$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Managed\Microsoft.CSharp.DesignTime.targets</CSharpDesignTimeTargetsPath>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <Import Project="$(CSharpDesignTimeTargetsPath)" Condition="Exists('$(CSharpDesignTimeTargetsPath)')" />
</Project>


Then, I typed the dotnet restore ProjectName.msbuildproj command.

Once restore is completed, you can now run your application by typing dotnet run command.