DevOps Assembly Info task Issues in build pipeline with .Net 6 Solution

Question

All,

I am attempting to add an assembly info taskto a build pipeline for all projects in a .Net 6 solution.

The task is failing for some projects and succeeding with others and terminating with an error the logging for which is as follows

Setting .Net Core / .Net Standard assembly info...

Processing: D:\A\F5\_work\15\s\MyCompany.Core.Domain.Context\MyCompany.Core.Domain.Context.csproj
Detected file encoding: utf-8
##[error]Error reading file: null

Processing: D:\A\F5\_work\15\s\MyCompany.Identity.Api\MyCompany.Identity.Api.csproj
Detected file encoding: utf-8
Verify file encoding: iso-8859-2    

Processing: D:\A\F5\_work\15\s\MyCompany.IdentityServer.Services\MyCompany.Identity.Services.IS4.csproj
Detected file encoding: iso-8859-1
Verify file encoding: iso-8859-1

ApplicationInsights:CorrelationIdManager [ { Error: connect ETIMEDOUT 52.138.227.130:443
      at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:1020:11)
      at exports._exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1043:20)
      at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1099:14)
    code: 'ETIMEDOUT',
    errno: 'ETIMEDOUT',
    syscall: 'connect',
    address: '52.138.227.130',
    port: 443 } ]

Issue 1: ##[error]Error reading file: null

Based on the fact that

• successful processing of a .csproj file is accompanied by a 'Detected file encoding' a 'Verify file encoding'
• failed processing of a .csproj file is accompanied by a 'Detected file encoding' only I'm thinking this could be due to the encoding of the files?

If I inspect each of the processed project files in my solution on my laptop using Notepad++ I can see that MyCompany.Identity.Services.IS4.csproj, which appears to be processed successfully, is UTF-8 but the other two are UTF-8-BOM so there's not consistency there.

However if I look at the corresponding files copied to the build server, the encoding has changed.

The two that succeed are UTF-8 but the one that has the error ##[error]Error reading file: null is UTF-8-BOM.

Firstly, why is the encoding changing between being on my laptop, pushed to Azure Repos Git and then copied to the build server by the pipeline?

Secondly, why doe a file get detected with one encoding but verified as another, as is the case with MyCompany.Identity.Api.csproj

Finally, why is the UTF-8-BOMfile failing and how can I prevent this?

Issue 2: Error: connect ETIMEDOUT

I've no idea where to start with that one so any pointers would be gratefully received.

Thanks in advance