Empty Solution in Visual Studio 2017

[giovannidegani]

Hi. I have cloned the repo and build the latest dev branch of the yo generator, installed in my system and generated an react-redux project. After opening the .csproj file in VS 2017 15.3 preview ( the same happens with 15.2 ) Community edition, I actually get an empty solution ( I have dotnetcore sdk 2.0.0-preview2 installed in my windows machine ).

Any ideas ?

This is the .csproj file

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web" ToolsVersion="15.0">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework Condition="'$(TargetFrameworkOverride)' == ''">netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework>
    <TargetFramework Condition="'$(TargetFrameworkOverride)' != ''">TargetFrameworkOverride</TargetFramework>
    <TypeScriptCompileBlocked>true</TypeScriptCompileBlocked>
    <TypeScriptToolsVersion>Latest</TypeScriptToolsVersion>
    <IsPackable>false</IsPackable>
    <FileUpgradeFlags>
    </FileUpgradeFlags>
    <UpgradeBackupLocation>
    </UpgradeBackupLocation>
    <OldToolsVersion>2.0</OldToolsVersion>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemGroup Condition="'$(TargetFrameworkOverride)' == ''">
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.All" Version="2.0.0-rtm-26219" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup Condition="'$(TargetFrameworkOverride)' != ''">
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore" Version="2.0.0-rtm-26219" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc" Version="2.0.0-rtm-26219" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.SpaServices" Version="2.0.0-rtm-26219" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.StaticFiles" Version="2.0.0-rtm-26219" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <DotNetCliToolReference Include="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Tools" Version="2.0.0-rtm-26219" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <!-- Files not to publish (note that the 'dist' subfolders are re-added below) -->
    <Content Remove="ClientApp\**" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <!--/-:cnd:noEmit -->
  <Target Name="DebugRunWebpack" BeforeTargets="Build" Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Debug' And !Exists('wwwroot\dist') ">
    <!-- Ensure Node.js is installed -->
    <Exec Command="node --version" ContinueOnError="true">
      <Output TaskParameter="ExitCode" PropertyName="ErrorCode" />
    </Exec>
    <Error Condition="'$(ErrorCode)' != '0'" Text="Node.js is required to build and run this project. To continue, please install Node.js from https://nodejs.org/, and then restart your command prompt or IDE." />
    <!-- In development, the dist files won't exist on the first run or when cloning to
         a different machine, so rebuild them if not already present. -->
    <Message Importance="high" Text="Performing first-run Webpack build..." />
    <Exec Command="node node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --config webpack.config.vendor.js" />
    <Exec Command="node node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js" />
  </Target>
  <!--/+:cnd:noEmit -->
  <Target Name="PublishRunWebpack" AfterTargets="ComputeFilesToPublish">
    <!-- As part of publishing, ensure the JS resources are freshly built in production mode -->
    <Exec Command="npm install" />
    <Exec Command="node node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --config webpack.config.vendor.js --env.prod" />
    <Exec Command="node node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --env.prod" />
    <!-- Include the newly-built files in the publish output -->
    <ItemGroup>
      <DistFiles Include="wwwroot\dist\**; ClientApp\dist\**" />
      <ResolvedFileToPublish Include="@(DistFiles->'%(FullPath)')" Exclude="@(ResolvedFileToPublish)">
        <RelativePath>%(DistFiles.Identity)</RelativePath>
        <CopyToPublishDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToPublishDirectory>
      </ResolvedFileToPublish>
    </ItemGroup>
  </Target>
</Project>`

[SteveSandersonMS]

If you want to use the sources in this repo directly, you now need the latest .NET Core 2.0 Preview 3 SDK installed before you open VS: https://github.com/dotnet/cli/tree/release/2.0.0#installers-and-binaries

[mcquiggd]

@SteveSandersonMS

I followed the link and there does not seem to be such a beast as .NET Core 2.0 Preview 3 SDK.

As those are daily builds, it's already up to version 2.0.1-servicing-006924.

As I couldn't find .NET Core 2.0 Preview 3 SDK anywhere, I downloaded the .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2 SDK, and had the same problem as @tiefox; to get the project to load I changed one line in the cs.proj file:

Change:
<TargetFramework Condition="'$(TargetFrameworkOverride)' == ''">netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework>
To:
<TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework>

The project will now load.

But... @SteveSandersonMS is there a download of the version of the SDK you are using available somewhere, so we can run this 'as is'?

P.S was really pleased to see the current dev branch react-redux template run without any TypeScript errors ;-)