[FIXED] Error NETSDK1005: Assets file doesn't have a target for 'net48'

2020-11-12

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This is happening after updating Visual Studio to version 16.8 and only with a CLI build (MSBuild.exe) and local NuGet.exe

If you are getting the following errors:

C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.100\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\targets\Microsoft.PackageDependencyResolution.targets(241,5): error NETSDK1005: Assets file 'project.assets.json' doesn't have a target for 'net48'. Ensure that restore has run and that you have included 'net48' in the TargetFrameworks for your project.

Try updating NuGet.exe to the 5.8.0 version or above

and clearing NuGet cache:

dotnet nuget locals all --clear

Download NuGet.exe 5.8.0

Webwires

2020-11-13 19:46:10

Thank you I was getting this same issue but only with CLI builds and this solved my problem. My error was slightly different though:

C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.100\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\targets\Microsoft.PackageDependencyResolution.targets(241,5): Error NETSDK1005: Assets file '[...]\project.assets.json' doesn't have a target for 'netstandard2.0'. Ensure that restore has run and that you have included 'netstandard2.0' in the TargetFrameworks for your project.

PIPPO

2020-11-16 10:29:14

thanks, it work

Hias

2020-11-16 13:17:48

Thanks Ivan!!!!!!!!!! We were in a depression, because we couldn't find the reason, why it doesn't build on Azure DevOps.

We really appreciate it!!!!

Brian Dukes

2020-11-18 22:40:00

Thanks! This helped get around an issue in our build pipeline today.

Yoni

2020-12-07 15:23:55

Thanks for your help!

I had to call also 'nuget restore' in order to make my code compile again...

Richard

2021-09-17 08:46:50

Thanks ! It fixed the same problem for me too when switching from netstandard2.1 to net5.0;netstandard2.1 on a project