microsoft/MSBuildLocator

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An API to locate MSBuild assemblies from an installed Visual Studio location. Use this to ensure that calling the MSBuild API will use the same toolset that a build from Visual Studio or msbuild.exe would.

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Forks: 91
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 27
Avg merge: 11d 22h
Merged PRs (30d): 3

Dominant language: C#
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Last GitHub push: Sep 15, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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27 open issues indexed

Support Visual Studio Shared Assembly Cache assembly resolution Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#390 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Stop mutating environment variables during registration Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#389 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
`MSBuildLocator.RegisterMSBuildPath()` not registering custom SDKs configured through `msbuild-sdks` in `globals.json` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#380 · Opened May 19, 2026
Symbol package is not being published to nuget.org. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#377 · Opened Feb 22, 2026
Automatic MSBuild Registration via Module Initializer Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#371 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 9, 2025
MSBuild locator warning should not prescribe PrivateAssets="all" Open

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#368 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 26, 2025
MSBuildLocator fails in macOS GUI apps due to missing /usr/local/share/dotnet in PATH Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#361 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 16, 2025
Extend build-time RuntimeAssets checks to include StringTools and NuGet APIs Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#353 · Opened Nov 4, 2025
Throw a graceful exception if the SDK needed by a project is not installed Open

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#337 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 17, 2025
Unable to build a netstandard2.0 project from a net8.0 unit test Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#336 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 28, 2025
Extend assembly loading warning to check for non-MSBuild but implicit dependencies like S.T.J and the SLNX library Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#322 · Opened Jan 7, 2025
List of Breaking/Planned changes for MSBuild.Locator v2.0 Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#282 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 26, 2024
Add warning message about the used MSBuild version Open

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#272 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 5, 2024
Add some guardrails to MSBuild Locator Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#254 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 26, 2023
Updating locator from 1.4.1 to 1.5.3 breaks x86 processes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#182 · 11 comments · Opened Sep 5, 2022
DiscoveryType.VisualStudioSetup no longer works when upgrading to net60 explicitly targeting net60-windows/win-x64 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#152 · 6 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Feb 18, 2022
Allow loading MSBuild into separate AssemblyLoadContext Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#134 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 27, 2021
64-bit MSBuild.exe is not used when custom process is 64-bit Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#133 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 23, 2021
Identify architecture of found MSBuild Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#130 · Opened May 18, 2021
Trying to load a project with Sdk.WindowDesktop fails. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#120 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 18, 2021
Can we avoid binding redirects since Locator controls binding? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#83 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 30, 2020
Should MSBuildLocator.RegisterDefaults register the highest VS version instead of first? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#81 · 4 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Jan 10, 2020
Roslyn Analyzer Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#67 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened May 14, 2019
Huge train wreck with multinode build Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#53 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 24, 2018
Provide a way for consumers to validate a VS instance Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#22 · Opened Mar 26, 2018
Consider respecting MSBUILD_EXE_PATH Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#20 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 26, 2018
AppDomains Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/MSBuildLocator#16 · 9 comments · Opened Mar 6, 2018

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