MSBuildVersion 15 not supported

[brandonh-msft]

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Details about Problem

NuGet product used (NuGet.exe | VS UI | Package Manager Console | dotnet.exe):
nuget.exe

NuGet version (x.x.x.xxx):
3.5.0.1996

dotnet.exe --version (if appropriate):
1.0.3

VS version (if appropriate):
2017

OS version (i.e. win10 v1607 (14393.321)):
10.15063.138

Worked before? If so, with which NuGet version:
n/a

Detailed repro steps so we can see the same problem

1. Create a new C# project in VS 2017.
2. Use one of the new C# 7 language features (implicit decl, pattern matching, etc)
3. Attempt nuget pack
4. Observe failure
5. Attempt to specify MSBuildVersion 15
6. Observe "can't find" error

Other suggested things

Verbose Logs

C:\Users\...\Projects\Personal\...>nuget pack ....csproj -build -properties configuration=release -verbosity detailed *-msbuildversion 15*
NuGet Version: 3.5.0.1996
Attempting to build package from '....csproj'.
NuGet.CommandLine.CommandLineException: Failed to load msbuild Toolset --->
>>> NuGet.CommandLine.CommandLineException: Cannot find the specified version of msbuild: '15'
   at NuGet.CommandLine.MsBuildUtility.GetMsbuildDirectoryInternal(String userVersion, IConsole console, IEnumerable`1 installedToolsets)
   at NuGet.CommandLine.MsBuildUtility.GetMsbuildDirectory(String userVersion, IConsole console)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at NuGet.CommandLine.MsBuildUtility.GetMsbuildDirectory(String userVersion, IConsole console)
   at NuGet.CommandLine.PackCommand.<ExecuteCommand>b__64_0()
   at System.Lazy`1.CreateValue()
   at System.Lazy`1.LazyInitValue()
   at System.Lazy`1.get_Value()
   at NuGet.Commands.PackCommandRunner.BuildFromProjectFile(String path)
   at NuGet.Commands.PackCommandRunner.BuildPackage(String path)
   at NuGet.Commands.PackCommandRunner.BuildPackage()
   at NuGet.CommandLine.PackCommand.ExecuteCommand()
   at NuGet.CommandLine.Command.ExecuteCommandAsync()
   at NuGet.CommandLine.Command.Execute()
   at NuGet.CommandLine.Program.MainCore(String workingDirectory, String[] args)

C:\Users\...\Projects\Personal\...>dir "c:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild"
 Volume in drive C is OSDisk
 Volume Serial Number is 82E0-F9F6

 Directory of c:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild

03/24/2017  10:51 AM    <DIR>          .
03/24/2017  10:51 AM    <DIR>          ..
07/13/2016  12:52 PM    <DIR>          12.0
07/13/2016  07:16 PM    <DIR>          14.0
>>> 03/07/2017  10:28 AM    <DIR>          15.0
07/13/2016  05:57 PM    <DIR>          4.0
03/24/2017  10:51 AM    <DIR>          Microsoft
07/13/2016  12:48 PM    <DIR>          Microsoft.Cpp
02/23/2017  09:18 PM    <DIR>          Novell
02/23/2017  09:18 PM    <DIR>          Xamarin
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
              10 Dir(s)  142,212,685,824 bytes free

[zhili1208]

Please use nuget.exe 4.1 from https://dist.nuget.org/index.html and specify MSBuildVersion 15.1, because actually msbuild version is 15.1 for VS 2017, so specifying 15 can't find msbuild

[ITCBB]

Dealing with this issue since yesterday. I actually had to uninstall previous MSBuid versions on my build server and remove the -MSBuildVersion argument from the call to get it to work with 15.1.

[CoskunSunali]

I cannot get this to work even if I specify 15.1 as the -MSBuildVersion.

P.S.: The agent is specified as "VS 2017". The NuGet version is specified as 4.0.0. I tried using 4.1.0 but no luck so far. There is no documentation regarding how to use "NuGet Tools Installer" task.

C:\LR\mms\Services\Mms\Provisioner\TaskAgent\agents\2.117.1\externals\nuget\NuGet.exe pack "d:\a\1\s\Src\ProjectName\ProjectName.csproj" -OutputDirectory "d:\a\1\a\Packages" -Properties Configuration=release -version 1.0.20170616 -MSBuildVersion 15.1
Cannot find the specified version of msbuild: '15.1'
System.Exception: Unexpected exit code 1 returned from tool NuGet.exe
   at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.DistributedTask.Task.Internal.InvokeToolCmdlet.ProcessRecord()
   at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessor.ProcessRecord()
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The same exception is thrown if I specify MSBuildVersion as "15" instead of "15.1".

[michael-freidgeim-webjet]

NuGet 3.5 didn't find v15, I've downloaded latest NuGet 4.3 and had to remove -MSBuildVersion (attempts to specify 15, 15.0 or 15.1 didn't help).
Then the MS Build was found:

MSBuild auto-detection: using msbuild version '15.3.409.57025' from 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\MSBuild\15.0\bin'. Use option -MSBuildVersion to force nuget to use a specific version of MSBuild.

The last sentence is wrong/misleading. I confirmed that only -MSBuildVersion 15.3 is acceptable value on my machine.

[nkolev92]

Fixed in NuGet/NuGet.Client#2673.