[Broken Build]: After Update to VS 17.14 (It builds with older version)

[ekalchev]

Issue Description

Our build process is divided into two stages. In the first stage, we build the entire solution. The second stage is responsible for creating the MSIX packages and with option /p:NoBuild=true.

To optimize build times, we use the /p:NoBuild=true option during the MSIX packaging stage. Since the binaries have already been produced in the first stage, this option prevents unnecessary rebuilding for each MSIX package, significantly speeding up our build process.

After updating to VS 17.14 our second phase of the build fails with errors for each of already built projects

The 'NoBuild' property was set to true but the 'Build' target was invoked.

We couldn't figure out how to fix that and decided to diff the build logs between 17.13 and 17.14. This is what we found

We traced the issue to this commit

1c27ccf

from this pull request #11167

@vikukush

Steps to Reproduce

I don't have minimal reproducible example, but I uploaded the build logs from both versions of visual studio
Binlogs.zip

Expected Behavior

To Create MSIX packages with /p:NoBuild=true without errors

Actual Behavior

Cannot create MSIX packages with /p:NoBuild=true without errors

Ask us questions

I need to know if this is a bug, and if you are planning to fix that.

[YuliiaKovalova]

Hi @ekalchev ,

Thank you for creating a ticket with the logs provided.

Yes, it's a bug, but not in MSBuild. The mentioned change mitigated a problem in the build system, but targets authored by other frameworks still rely on the previous incorrect behavior (in this case it's caused by Microsoft.DesktopBridge.targets).

We are in contact with DesktopBridge team to understand how fast they can patch the change or we will consider the alternative scenario.
I will keep you posted!