Issues

• Support Visual Studio Shared Assembly Cache assembly resolution

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#390 · Filter by author rainersigwald opened on Aug 25, 2026

• Stop mutating environment variables during registration

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#389 · Filter by author rainersigwald opened on Aug 14, 2026

• MSBuildLocator.RegisterMSBuildPath() not registering custom SDKs configured through msbuild-sdks in globals.json

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#380 · Filter by author tygill opened on May 19, 2026

• Symbol package is not being published to nuget.org.

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#377 · Filter by author teo-tsirpanis opened on Feb 22, 2026

• Automatic MSBuild Registration via Module Initializer

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#371 · Filter by author YuliiaKovalova opened on Dec 9, 2025
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• MSBuild locator warning should not prescribe PrivateAssets="all"

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#368 · Filter by author AArnott opened on Nov 26, 2025
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• MSBuildLocator fails in macOS GUI apps due to missing /usr/local/share/dotnet in PATH

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#361 · Filter by author MattParkerDev opened on Nov 16, 2025
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• Extend build-time RuntimeAssets checks to include StringTools and NuGet APIs

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#353 · Filter by author baronfel opened on Nov 4, 2025

• Throw a graceful exception if the SDK needed by a project is not installed

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#337 · Filter by author jasonmalinowski opened on Sep 17, 2025
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• Unable to build a netstandard2.0 project from a net8.0 unit test

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#336 · Filter by author DarkDaskin opened on Jul 28, 2025
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• Extend assembly loading warning to check for non-MSBuild but implicit dependencies like S.T.J and the SLNX library

  enhancement
  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#322 · Filter by author baronfel opened on Jan 7, 2025

• List of Breaking/Planned changes for MSBuild.Locator v2.0

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#282 · Filter by author YuliiaKovalova opened on Feb 26, 2024
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• Add warning message about the used MSBuild version

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#272 · Filter by author YuliiaKovalova opened on Feb 5, 2024

• Add some guardrails to MSBuild Locator

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#254 · Filter by author YuliiaKovalova opened on Oct 26, 2023
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• Updating locator from 1.4.1 to 1.5.3 breaks x86 processes

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#182 · Filter by author AArnott opened on Sep 5, 2022
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• DiscoveryType.VisualStudioSetup no longer works when upgrading to net60 explicitly targeting net60-windows/win-x64

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#152 · Filter by author siegfriedpammer opened on Feb 18, 2022
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• Allow loading MSBuild into separate AssemblyLoadContext

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#134 · Filter by author twsouthwick opened on Aug 27, 2021
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• 64-bit MSBuild.exe is not used when custom process is 64-bit

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#133 · Filter by author jeffkl opened on Aug 23, 2021
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• Identify architecture of found MSBuild

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#130 · Filter by author twsouthwick opened on May 18, 2021

• Trying to load a project with Sdk.WindowDesktop fails.

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#120 · Filter by author vpenades opened on Jan 18, 2021
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• Can we avoid binding redirects since Locator controls binding?

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#83 · Filter by author rainersigwald opened on Jan 30, 2020
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• Should MSBuildLocator.RegisterDefaults register the highest VS version instead of first?

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#81 · Filter by author jasonmalinowski opened on Jan 10, 2020
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• Roslyn Analyzer

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#67 · Filter by author rainersigwald opened on May 14, 2019
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• Huge train wreck with multinode build

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#53 · Filter by author kkm000 opened on Nov 24, 2018
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• Provide a way for consumers to validate a VS instance

  microsoft/MSBuildLocator#22 · Filter by author DustinCampbell opened on Mar 26, 2018