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Forks: 94
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 46
Avg merge: 6h 40m
Merged PRs (30d): 2

Dominant language: C#
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 16, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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46 open issues indexed

Simple SDK for custom artifacts (EXEs / DLLs) generated by external tool Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#653 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 23, 2025
Artifacts: Discrepancy between single- and multi-targeting scenarios Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#652 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 16, 2025
Support MTP in Microsoft.Build.RunVSTest Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#646 · Opened Oct 31, 2025
Bug: NoTargets projects stopped appearing in solution Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#644 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 8, 2025
Consider setting `DisableImplicitFrameworkReferences` on the NoTargets SDK to prevent the .NET SDK from loading any packs Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#642 · Opened Sep 12, 2025
Need better documentation on how to build custom SDKs, including with NoTargets Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#635 · Opened Jul 21, 2025
[Feature Request] SDK for creating MSIX Packages Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#626 · 2 comments · Opened May 14, 2025
MSB4060 and MSB4061 errors Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#605 · Opened Feb 11, 2025
Traversal projects don't work with the Visual Studio Fast Up-to-date Check Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#594 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 26, 2024
Installation of Microsoft.Build.CopyOnWrite Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#593 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 13, 2024
Upgrade to System.Text.Json >= 8.0.5 once downlevel VS releases can handle it Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#591 · Opened Nov 4, 2024
Traversal SDK ignores SetTargetFramework metadata on ProjectReference Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#582 · Opened Oct 18, 2024
Can I use the NoTargets SDK to just generate the source? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#579 · Opened Oct 11, 2024
RobocopyFiles target from Microsoft.Build.Artifacts not compatible with UseArtifactsOutput Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#566 · Opened Sep 4, 2024
Microsoft.Build.RunVSTest fails on multi-targeting test projects Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#564 · Opened Aug 27, 2024
Traversal msbuild-sdk does not perform the "Restore" task across all projects Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#561 · 1 comment · Opened May 8, 2024
DOCS: Instructions for Microsoft.Build.CopyOnWrite do not adequately explain how to install it Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#552 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 30, 2024
[Feature Request] New MSBuildSdk to simplify creating an MSBuild task package Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#551 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 30, 2024
[RunVSTest] Some test display names cause failures Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#543 · Opened Mar 9, 2024
[RunVSTest] Console output for failures is unhelpful Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#542 · Opened Mar 8, 2024
[Traversal] Filtering projects solution files without kicking off evaluations Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#522 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 4, 2024
Microsoft.Build.Traversal dynamically skipped projects in solution files still get restored with static graph restore Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#521 · Opened Jan 4, 2024
Microsoft.Build.Traversal conflicts with .NET 8 SDK simplified output paths Open

Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#509 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 4, 2023
"error MSB3030: Could not copy the file" when using Microsoft.Build.CopyOnWrite Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#508 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 26, 2023
How to express project dependencies in Traversal SDK? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#504 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 13, 2023
CopyOnWrite: add SourceLink Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#495 · Opened Oct 22, 2023
Tests are not truly parallelized when run with Traversal project Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#488 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 2, 2023
Microsoft.Build.Artifacts conflicts with .NET 8 SDK simplified output paths Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#477 · 17 comments · Opened Sep 7, 2023
Feature Request: dotnet templates package for Traversal and NoTargets projects Open

Feature Request Help Wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#472 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 22, 2023
ProjectReferences do not work for a NoTargets project that sets TargetFrameworks and NoTargetsDoNotReferenceOutputAssemblies Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#469 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 9, 2023
Skipping unsupported projects does not exclude NuGet imports during restore Open

Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#448 · 1 reaction · Opened May 30, 2023
Notargets overriding GetFrameworkPaths causes warnings Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#444 · Opened May 12, 2023
NoTargets sdk import discrepancy Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#443 · 3 comments · Opened May 7, 2023
[NoTargets] Can't build with BuildProjectReferences=false when referencing a multi-targeted project Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#427 · 8 comments · Opened Mar 10, 2023
[NoTargets] Projects referencing a NoTargets project do not see ResolvedProjectReference items Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#426 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 9, 2023
IncludeBuildOutput = false causes some issues Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#398 · Opened Oct 27, 2022
running dotnet pack in a GitHub action results in MSB4236 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#397 · Opened Oct 21, 2022
[Traversal] Support `Platforms` as a First Class Concept Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#380 · 10 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2022
[NoTargets] Why not `<EnableDefaultItems>false</EnableDefaultItems>`? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#371 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 21, 2022
[NoTargets]: build assembly with custom tool Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#370 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 20, 2022
Build some projects in parallel with Microsoft.Build.Traversal Open

Question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#369 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 17, 2022
Remove TargetFramework requirement from Microsoft.Build.NoTargets SDK Open

Feature Request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#368 · 9 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 12, 2022
Enable dotnet list package for the entire traversal Open

Feature Request Help Wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#337 · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 8, 2022
Need Microsoft.Net.Sdk.Sql Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#332 · 6 comments · Opened Dec 21, 2021
Parallel pack is broken in some scenarios Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#331 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 13, 2021
NoTargets does not work with multi targeting when project extension is .msbuildproj Open

Bug Help Wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildSdks#155 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 12, 2020

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