ArduPilot / ArduPilot/MissionPlanner

Issues with building Mission Planner with VS 2017

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Description

#### Issue details
I got a lot of errors about "Meta data *.dll could not be found" when building the solution with VS2017.

Here is the ERROR LIST

![error_list](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13134399/47360830-03988100-d703-11e8-8d8a-43201afa6baf.jpg)
![error_list2](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13134399/47360845-0b582580-d703-11e8-9461-981e8d835dec.jpg)

build details are attached as follows,;
[output.txt](https://github.com/ArduPilot/MissionPlanner/files/2506460/output.txt)
[error_list.txt](https://github.com/ArduPilot/MissionPlanner/files/2506462/error_list.txt)

#### Version
I build the Mission Planner git clone from "https://github.com/ArduPilot/MissionPlanner"

Window 10 home 1803

Visual Studio Community 2017 15.8.7

Anyone could give me some hints on how to remove the build errors? Thank you very much.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the attached output.txt and error_list.txt, then reproduce the Mission Planner solution build on Windows 10 with Visual Studio Community 2017 15.8.7. Identify why the referenced DLL metadata cannot be found and verify that the solution builds without those errors.

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Assessment

Tech stack
csharp, visualbasic
Domain
build-system, desktop
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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