CruiseControl .NET Gotcha: Moving Microsoft.WebApplications.Targets to the server [Field Notes]

Problem:

When attempting an automated build, CruiseControl.NET (running on Server 2008 R2 with .NET Framework 4.0 Installed) gives the following error in its log:

error MSB4019: The imported project “C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets” was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.

Solution

This is ridiculous, but you have to copy the two files from your machine to the Build Server.

Copy the directory C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\*.* to the same location on the build server.