AddBizTalkHiddenReferences error in TFS build when installing ProjectBuildComponent via a command line setup
I have been trying to script the installation of all the tools and SDKs we need on our TFS Build Agent VMs. This included BizTalk. A quick check on MSDN showed the setup command line parameter I need to install the build components was
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3/ADDLOCAL ProjectBuildComponent
So I ran this via my VMs setup PowerShell script, all appeared OK, but when I tried a build I got the error
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3C:Program Files (x86)MSBuildMicrosoftBizTalkBizTalkCommon.targets (189): The "AddBizTalkHiddenReferences" task failed unexpectedly.
4System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
5Parameter name: path1
6 at System.IO.Path.Combine(String path1, String path2)
7 at Microsoft.VisualStudio.BizTalkProject.Base.HiddenReferencesHelper.InitializeHiddenReferences()
8 at Microsoft.VisualStudio.BizTalkProject.Base.HiddenReferencesHelper.get\_HiddenReferences()
9 at Microsoft.VisualStudio.BizTalkProject.Base.HiddenReferencesHelper.GetHiddenReferencesNotAdded(IList\`1 projectReferences)
10 at Microsoft.VisualStudio.BizTalkProject.BuildTasks.AddBizTalkHiddenReferences.Execute()
11 at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost.Execute()
12 at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.<ExecuteInstantiatedTask>d\_\_20.MoveNext()
The strange thing is, if I run the BizTalk installer via the UI and select just the ‘Project Build Components’ my build did not give this error.
On checking the Biztalk setup logs I saw that the UI based install does not run
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3/ADDLOCAL ProjectBuildComponent
but
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3/ADDLOCAL WMI,BizTalk,AdditionalApps,ProjectBuildComponent
Once this change was made to my PowerShell script the TFS build worked OK