[CB-9454] `cordova build` does not execute with the phonegap-plugin-barcodescanner plugin on Windows 10

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.1.1
• Component/s: cordova-cli, cordova-windows
• Labels: windows10

Environment

Windows 10 Professional; Visual Studio Professional 2015 (it also happens without VS2015 installed)

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Kelvin Dart
• Created: 05/Aug/15 09:58
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:10
• Resolved: 07/Aug/15 07:32

Description

Whenever I add the phonegap-plugins-barcodescanner using:

cordova plugin add phonegap-plugin-barcodescanner

I receive the following error:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\WindowsXaml\v14.0\8.1\Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.CSharp.targets(19,3): error MS
B4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\WindowsXaml\v14.0\8.1\Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xa
ml.CSharp.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exist
s on disk. [C:\Users\kelvi\Desktop\mpro5\plugins\phonegap-plugin-barcodescanner\src\windows\lib\WinRTBarcodeReader.cspr
oj]

Trying to find that path, I can navigate to: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\WindowsXaml\v14.0\. In this directory, there are four files:

Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.Common.Targets
Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.CPP.Targets
Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.CSharp.targets
Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.VisualBasic.Targets

As a cheap hack, I tried creating a folder here called 8.1 and then executed cordova build again. This time I received the following error:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\WindowsXaml\v14.0\8.1\Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.CSharp.targets(19,3): error MS
B4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\WindowsXaml\v14.0\8.1\8.1\Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xa
ml.CSharp.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exist
s on disk. [C:\Users\kelvi\Desktop\mpro5\plugins\phonegap-plugin-barcodescanner\src\windows\lib\WinRTBarcodeReader.cspr
oj]

So one of the the Node scripts somewhere is doing a system check I presume and appending 8.1 to the end?