Authoring Extensions on Remko's Bloghttps://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/tags/authoring-extensions/Recent content in Authoring Extensions on Remko's BlogHugoen-usTue, 08 Jul 2014 14:38:56 +0000Error MSB4018 when building a Management Pack with Visual Studio Authoring Extensionshttps://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2014/07/08/error-msb4018-when-building-a-visual-studio-authoring-extensions/Tue, 08 Jul 2014 14:38:56 +0000https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2014/07/08/error-msb4018-when-building-a-visual-studio-authoring-extensions/<p>I am currently working on a Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager (aka SCOM). I am using the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30169" target="_blank">System Center 2012 Visual Studio Authoring Extensions</a> and during build of my project I suddenly got the following error: &ldquo;<em>MSB4018: The &ldquo;MergeFragments&rdquo; task failed unexpectedly</em>&rdquo;:</p> <p><a class="glightbox thickbox" href="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/errorMSB4018.webp" data-type="image" data-gallery="post-3458"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="display: inline;" title="error MSB4018: The &quot;MergeFragments&quot; task failed unexpectedly." src="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/errorMSB4018_thumb.webp" alt="Visual Studio | System Center 2012 Visual Studio Authoring Extensions | C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VSAC\Microsoft.SystemCenter.OperationsManager.targets(234,5) | error MSB4018: The &quot;MergeFragments&quot; task failed unexpectedly." width="423" height="67" /></a></p> <p>I searched on this error message but wasn&rsquo;t able to find anything helpful. In order to get more detailed output from MSBuild I changed the MSBuild project build output verbosity. To do this go to the Tools menu in Visual Studio and select Options. Navigate to the &ldquo;Build and Run&rdquo; node under &ldquo;Projects and Solutions&rdquo; and set both options to &ldquo;Diagnostic&rdquo;:</p> <p><a class="glightbox thickbox" href="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/VisualStudioBuildOptions.webp" data-type="image" data-gallery="post-3458"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="display: inline;" title="Build Options" src="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/VisualStudioBuildOptions_thumb.webp" alt="Visual Studio | Tools | Options | Projects and Solutions | Build and Run | MSBuild project build output verbosity | Diagnostic" width="411" height="238" /></a></p>