Install Missing Features dialog shows when project contains misplaced ProjectReference

[tmat]

Visual Studio Version:

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create C# project with the following content:

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

  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.1</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ProjectReference Include="Foo.csproj"/>

</Project>

2. When opened in VS it will be unloaded. Reload it.

Expected Behavior:

Error is reported that ProjectReference element is misplaced (not inside an ItemGroup).

Actual Behavior:

User Impact:

[davkean]

This will occur for any csproj that fails to load.

This will be the whole "we're missing a single component from the .NET desktop development workload so assume this is the problem". You probably won't be able to repro this on a new install, it might take an upgrade to a build that added a component to the desktop workload.

[sumit84mca]

Any update on this issue