Having at last got an Asp.Net Mvc 4 project template working on the Mac/Xamarin/Mono, I came to grief again when deploying it to a Windows hosted server. The problem is that whereas mono works without Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure.dll (and indeed is likely to give errors if you have it), for hosting on Windows you must re-include it.
So my deploy process now includes putting Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure.dll back in the web application bin/ directory; and now I can develop on the Mac and deploy to a Windows Server.
Tag: asp.net mvc
Can’t open Asp.Net MVC2 project in Visual Studio 2010 – Microsoft.WebApplication.targets was not found
You try to open an MVC2 project that worked on a previous machine but won't open on your new machine? The error message you get when you try to open the project is:
error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the
declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.
Possibly your new machine has never had Visual Studio 2008 on it, whereas your old machine did. In which case the solutions is:
- Find a machine on which VS2008 has been installed
- Copy the contents of C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\WebApplications to your new machine