References not included in VSTS

Question

I'm building an UWP Windows 10 in XAML and C#. I have several extensions installed into VS2017 that are referenced from the "references" section. Because the VS2017 host agent doesn't have the extensions I had to copy to a local folder and distribute the extensions with the source code. I put this code in the CSProj in order to get access to the extensions by the folder.

 <PropertyGroup>
      <SDKReferenceDirectoryRoot>..\SDKs\Microsoft SDKs;
      </SDKReferenceDirectoryRoot>
 </PropertyGroup>

In order to simulate the process, I compile using powershell my App using MSBuild 15. When fetching the SDKs in the powershell compilation it runes 6 steps, 3 to enumerate and 3 to add the SDKs to the project:

ExpandSDKReferences:  Enumerating SDK Reference "Microsoft.VCLibs, 
ersion=14.0" from "C:\Users\myusername\Source\Repos\VSTS\BI Read 
Windows\SDKs\Microsoft SDKs\Windows 
Kits\10\ExtensionSDKs\Microsoft.VCLibs\14.0\".
Enumerating SDK Reference "PDFTron.PDFNetUWPApps, Version=6.5.4.47152" from 
"C:\Users\myusername\Source\Repos\VSTS\BI Read Windows\SDKs\Microsoft 
SDKs\UAP\v0.8.0.0\ExtensionSDKs\PDFTron.PDFNetUWPApps\6.5.4.47152\".
Adding reference "References\CommonConfiguration\x86\pdftron.winmd".
Adding file "Redist\CommonConfiguration\x86\pdftron.dll" from redist folder 
with target path "pdftron.dll".
Enumerating SDK Reference "SQLCipher.UAP.2015, Version=3.4.0" from 
"C:\Users\myusername\Source\Repos\VSTS\BI Read Windows\SDKs\Microsoft 
SDKs\UAP\v0.8.0.0\ExtensionSDKs\SQLCipher.UAP.2015\3.4.0\".
Adding file "Redist\Debug\x86\sqlite3.dll" from redist folder with target 
path "sqlite3.dll".

In the other hand, in the hosted agent in VSTS it only ENUMERATES the sdks but never gets to add them to the project:

 ExpandSDKReferences:
 Enumerating SDK Reference "Microsoft.VCLibs, Version=14.0" from 
 "C:\a\1\s\SDKs\Microsoft SDKs\Windows 
Kits\10\ExtensionSDKs\Microsoft.VCLibs\14.0\".
Enumerating SDK Reference "PDFTron.PDFNetUWPApps, Version=6.5.4.47152" from 
"C:\a\1\s\SDKs\Microsoft 
SDKs\UAP\v0.8.0.0\ExtensionSDKs\PDFTron.PDFNetUWPApps\6.5.4.47152\".
Enumerating SDK Reference "SQLCipher.UAP.2015, Version=3.4.0" from 
"C:\a\1\s\SDKs\Microsoft 
SDKs\UAP\v0.8.0.0\ExtensionSDKs\SQLCipher.UAP.2015\3.4.0\".

And because it's not added, I've got compilation errors. What might be happening?

Regards.

Answer 1

Yes, I think so, I submit a user voice here: SQLite for Universal Windows Platform on Hosted VS2017 agent, you can vote and follow up it.

The workaround is that you can setup a build agent on your machine and use it for your builds.

Deploy an agent on Windows