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This is an error that appeard a few years ago. I have not experienced this until the past two weeks with all my Visual Studio installations. I've tried all the solutions from past posts that I found. None worked. I suspect the error is with the DNN Templates Version 9. Can you confirm?

The "MSBuild.Community.Tasks.XmlRead" task could not be loaded from the assembly … packages\MSBuildTasks.1.5.0.235\tools\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.dll. Could not load file or assembly … packages\MSBuildTasks.1.5.0.235\tools\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.dll' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

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  • According to error log, you should check if the MSBuild.Community.Tasks.dll exists in the folder "..\packages\MSBuildTasks.1.5.0.235\tools", if not, you should re-install that package. – Leo Liu Aug 21 '17 at 02:44
  • I had to manually change the version # both in the targets file "~\BuildScripts\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Targets" and in the csproj file: $(SolutionDir)\packages\MSBuildTasks.1.5.0.235\tools – David Storfer Jul 28 '20 at 19:19

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The call is to the Buildscripts folder and the DLL is in the packages folder.

Copy the DLL from \packages\MSBuildTasks.1.5.0.235\tools and paste the DLL into the BuildScripts folder. Make sure to close/reopen the project.

dippas
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J Brown
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You should reinstall the package from NuGet into your project since the error message states that it is missing.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/MSBuildTasks

VDWWD
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  • Thank you. Once NuGet was selected with the project open the error message appears indicating an error with MSBuild accompanied by a restore button. Selecting restore appears to solve the issue. Important that the restore be done just after project is created. – Jack Aug 21 '17 at 18:32
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I had to manually change the version # both in the targets file "~\BuildScripts\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Targets" and in the csproj file:

<MSBuildCommunityTasksPath>$(SolutionDir)\packages\MSBuildTasks.1.5.0.235\tools</MSBuildCommunityTasksPath>
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We found that sometimes you have to change

<MSBuildCommunityTasksPath>

in the project file, as it overrides the nuget package settings

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