How can I manually build my dotnet framework project ?

Question

I have a dotnet Framework project, and I want to build it in order to create CICD pipeline.
I create the project and type " dotnet build ", it fails and shows the following error:

PS C:\try\WebApplication1> dotnet build
    Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 16.8.0+126527ff1 for .NET
    Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

      Determining projects to restore...
      Nothing to do. None of the projects specified contain packages to restore.
    C:\try\WebApplication1\WebApplication1\WebApplication1.csproj(184,5): error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.101\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v16.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" was not found. Confirm that the expression i
    n the Import declaration "C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.101\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v16.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" is correct, and that the file exists on disk.

    Build FAILED.

    C:\try\WebApplication1\WebApplication1\WebApplication1.csproj(184,5): error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.101\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v16.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" was not found. Confirm that the expression i
    n the Import declaration "C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.101\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v16.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" is correct, and that the file exists on disk.
        0 Warning(s)
        1 Error(s)

It's there anything I am missing? Thanks! 

Answer 1

dotnet command is for .NET Core project only. If you are trying to build legacy .NET Framework projects, learn to use msbuild.

Answer 2

@Luna Goodnight , have you got success trying to build .NET Framework in CICD pipeline? I think you are trying to do this using a linux docke image (probably dotnet/sdk), are you?

@Anonymous , is there a linux docker image which has msbuild command? The dotnet/sdk image doesn't have.

Thanks in advance!