<p>It is possible that your project is referring to VS 2017 somewhere.
Double-check all your solution and proj files for any reference to VS 2017.</p>
<p>Try to enable debug mode and gather more info.</p>

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<p>I was wondering if someone has ran into this problem as I have tried everything to fix. I have a DevOps build pipeline in Azure running visual studio 2015 version (which matches my local machine) and I am running into this error</p>

<p><strong>Error MSB4226: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" was not found</strong></p>

<p>It builds perfectly fine on my machine. I have no idea why I cannot get this to build fine on DevOps.. and I haven't seen many questions about it. I  went ahead and changed the vb.proj file to reflect the following and it still did not work </p>

<pre><code>    &lt;VisualStudioVersion Condition="'$(VisualStudioVersion)' == ''"&gt;14.0&lt;/VisualStudioVersion&gt;
    &lt;!--Add the below line to fix the project loading in VS 2017 --&gt;
    &lt;VSToolsPath Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' == ''"&gt;$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)&lt;/VSToolsPath&gt;
    &lt;!--End --&gt;
  &lt;/PropertyGroup&gt;
  &lt;Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\Microsoft.VisualBasic.targets" /&gt;
  &lt;Import Project="$(VSToolsPath)\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' != ''" /&gt;
  &lt;Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="false" /&gt;```

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I've been battling this for months on end with no real results - especially on the build server. 
Recently we went from TFS2013 to DevOps 2020; exact same error. You are on the correct path. Its something with those import tags.
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Error MSB4226: Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" was not found
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# Error MSB4226: Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" was not found

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-06-01)

I was wondering if someone has ran into this problem as I have tried everything to fix. I have a DevOps build pipeline in Azure running visual studio 2015 version (which matches my local machine) and I am running into this error
Error MSB4226: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" was not found
It builds perfectly fine on my machine. I have no idea why I cannot get this to build fine on DevOps.. and I haven't seen many questions about it. I  went ahead and changed the vb.proj file to reflect the following and it still did not work 
    14.0
    
    $(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)
    
  
  
  
  ```

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I've been battling this for months on end with no real results - especially on the build server.  Recently we went from TFS2013 to DevOps 2020; exact same error. You are on the correct path. Its something with those import tags.  
> **username_2**: ideas: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3980909/microsoft-webapplication-targets-was-not-found-on-the-build-server-whats-your  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2023-10-25. Score: 0

It is possible that your project is referring to VS 2017 somewhere.
Double-check all your solution and proj files for any reference to VS 2017.

Try to enable debug mode and gather more info.


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