Project must provide a value for configuration

Question

Project must provide a value for configuration. Msbuild failed wih this error and its working fine if doing build via vs 2017. But breaking when using Msbuild cmdline

Answer 1

Try deleting Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Design in your .csproj file. That worked perfectly for me. I had the same issue, when I migrated my project from .NET Core 2.2 to .NET Core 3.0.