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I'm trying to set up my development environment on a new laptop and I'm suddenly having a problem I've never had before. A text transform using TextTemplating in a migrations project is failing, and the error message doesn't give me much to go off of. All of the files referenced exist and are in the right place, and I've made sure their permissions aren't restricting anything. This looks like it could be a PATH issue, but according to the build log all of the MSBuildTools paths look correct. This is using the latest VS2019 version.
Transforming template Build\BuildInfo.tt... (TaskId:9)
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v16.0\TextTemplating\Microsoft.TextTemplating.targets(340,5): error : Running transformation: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): The system cannot find the file specified
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v16.0\TextTemplating\Microsoft.TextTemplating.targets(340,5): error : at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithCreateProcess(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v16.0\TextTemplating\Microsoft.TextTemplating.targets(340,5): error : at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start()
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v16.0\TextTemplating\Microsoft.TextTemplating.targets(340,5): error : at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating4C374DA128B1CEA46F8BA186E7EDE4CD053056490F410C038921D190887F9C8F86A20E1161C6E22B7B6DADD779D82E7778373F47CBC859DE99B2DD9DD80DCEED.GeneratedTextTransformation.TransformText(). Line=0, Column=0
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Hi @Sean Murphy ,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum. May I ask if above error message was collected in VS Output window by changing Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > Build And Run > MSBuild project build output verbosity option to Detailed?
The error message didn’t show the specific path of the file. To narrow down this issue(to confirm if this is a potential issue), could you try to run this project on another machine and check if it builds and runs?
Besides, please also try to repair Visual Studio 2019, and try this SFC tool to repair any missing or corrupted system files.
If you are building the project while signed in with an admin account, make sure that your admin account has git.exe in its PATH variable. The basic visual studio git does not get added to the path, you are best off just downloading and installing the git stand alone installer. If you don't do this, you will get TextTemplating/TextTransform errors if one of the .tt files (they are scripts) tries to call git.exe.