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I'm trying to build a solution using msbuild command line and I keep getting this error:
error MSB4236: The SDK 'Microsoft.NET.Sdk' specified could not be found.
The version of msbuild is the latest from microsoft visual studio 2017 tools. I'm using Windows Server 2012 R2 and the project uses .NET Core 2.0.
This is the command that I'm using:
msbuild.exe /p:Configuration=Release /t:restore C:\Projects\MyProject.sln
Complete log:
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 15.3.409.57025 for .NET Framework Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build, please add the "/m" switch. Build started 9/16/2017 3:09:03 PM. Project "C:\Projects\MyProject.sln" on node 1 (restore target(s)). ValidateSolutionConfiguration: Building solution configuration "Release|Any CPU". Project "C:\Projects\MyProject.sln" (1) is building "C:\Projects\Kernel\Kernel.csproj" (2) on node 1 (restore target(s)). C:\Projects\MyProject.sln" (1) is building "C:\Projects\Kernel\Kernel.csproj : error MSB4236: The SDK 'Microsoft.NET.Sdk' specified could not be found. Done Building Project "C:\Projects\MyProject.sln" (1) is building "C:\Projects\Kernel\Kernel.csproj" (restore target(s)) -- FAILED. Build FAILED. "C:\Projects\MyProject.sln" (restore target) (1) -> "C:\Projects\Kernel\Kernel.csproj" (restore target) (2) -> C:\Projects\Kernel\Kernel.csproj : error MSB4236: The SDK 'Microsoft.NET.Sdk' specified could not be found. 0 Warning(s) 11 Error(s) 
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To install MSBuild on a system that doesn't have Visual Studio, go to Build Tools for Visual Studio 2022 on the downloads page. Another way of getting MSBuild is to install the . NET SDK.
Use MSBuild at a command prompt To run MSBuild at a command prompt, pass a project file to MSBuild.exe, together with the appropriate command-line options. Command-line options let you set properties, execute specific targets, and set other options that control the build process.
NET. Sdk. Web is an MSBuild project SDK for building ASP.NET Core apps. It's possible to build an ASP.NET Core app without this SDK, however, the Web SDK is: Tailored towards providing a first-class experience.
The global. json file in the root of your project (or even in the root of your file system as the SDK will traverse the file system until it finds one) allows defining which version of the SDK to use.
I encountered this error after playing around with .Net Core 2.0 installation and seemingly messing it up. I would get this same error for dotnet restore, dotnet build or dotnet msbuild. Essentially, anything involving .Net Core and msbuild.
The error occurred because the MSBuildSDKsPath environment variable was still pointing to the old .Net Core 1.1 SDK.
To fix the problem, I manually set the MSBuildSDKsPath environment variable to point to 2.0.0's SDK path, which, for me with x64, this was at: C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.0.0\Sdks.
Basically, if you have Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk" in your .csproj, then a folder with the same name should exist at your MSBuildSDKsPath location.
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