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M Leipper
M Leipper

Reputation: 397

need help migrating winform to net 5

I'm porting a winform app from net core 3.1 to net 5 and getting the following error.

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error NETSDK1136 The target platform must be set to Windows (usually by including '-windows' in the TargetFramework property) when using Windows Forms or WPF, or referencing projects or packages that do so. PublicOutput.core C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.100\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\targets\Microsoft.NET.Sdk.DefaultItems.targets 369

This is the section of Microsofts.net.sdk.DefaultItems.targets that this is referring to.

  <Target Name="_CheckForInvalidWindowsDesktopTargetingConfiguration"
        BeforeTargets="_CheckForInvalidConfigurationAndPlatform"
        Condition="'$(TargetFrameworkIdentifier)' == '.NETCoreApp' and $([MSBuild]::VersionGreaterThanOrEquals($(_TargetFrameworkVersionWithoutV), '5.0')) and ('$(UseWindowsForms)' == 'true' or '$(UseWPF)' == 'true')">
    <NETSdkError Condition="'$(TargetPlatformIdentifier)' != 'Windows'"
                 ResourceName="WindowsDesktopTargetPlatformMustBeWindows" >

I don't understand the error and the link where the error sends me is not helpful

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/?f1url=%3FappId%3DDev16IDEF1%26l%3DEN-US%26k%3Dk(NETSDK1136)%26rd%3Dtrue&view=vs-2019

I've got my target framework set to the following:

    <TargetFramework>net5.0</TargetFramework>
<UseWindowsForms>true</UseWindowsForms>

any help would be appreciated

Upvotes: 19

Views: 10990

Answers (3)

Ahmet Firat Keler
Ahmet Firat Keler

Reputation: 4040

That may happen if you share a project on a DevOps Env like Azure.

To get the root of that problem, I tried to build every single project one by one and realized that One of my teammates added a new WinForm project into our API project

.csproj file

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>WinExe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
    <TargetFrameworks Condition="$([MSBuild]::IsOSPlatform('windows')) and '$(MSBuildRuntimeType)' == 'Full'">$(TargetFrameworks);net6.0-windows</TargetFrameworks>
    <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
    <UseWindowsForms>true</UseWindowsForms>
    <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
  </PropertyGroup>

</Project>

I was using a Mac so I could not build.

Including '-windows' in the TargetFramework property will not help in this case.

I just unloaded that project from the solution and then I was able to rebuild it with no errors again.

Upvotes: 0

Jari Ylilahti
Jari Ylilahti

Reputation: 15

Change target framework to right version in project properties.

Upvotes: -4

magicandre1981
magicandre1981

Reputation: 28826

The error is clear:

The target platform must be set to Windows (usually by including '-windows' in the TargetFramework property) when using Windows Forms or WPF,

so change <TargetFramework>net5.0</TargetFramework> to <TargetFramework>net5.0-windows</TargetFramework> as written in docs

Upvotes: 38

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