Jeff Rosenberg

So far, I've managed to get the binlog to show that the `Build` step is skipped, but it hasn't resolved the problem of a circular reference when targeting the `PostBuildEvent`....

@kevcrooks I'm looking more closely at the [MSBuild documentation](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/msbuild/target-build-order?view=vs-2019), and I don't think `` will work the way you expect it to. Based on the target build order, I believe...

Nice catch, that definitely explains what we're seeing

@jmezach that's all I've had to do in the past. I have a few thoughts, but it's hard to know for sure what's going on without some further information. @MHacker9404...

@MHacker9404 I'd like to see the full output when you run `dotnet build .csproj`

It certainly looks to me like your `master.dacpac` dependency isn't being resolved. If it were, I'd expect to see that in the outputs. In the image you posted, is that...

I have mixed feelings on this. I can acknowledge that it would remove some barriers, but on the other hand, I'm not sure whether those are barriers we actually _want_...

The whole conversation is really frustrating to me, since NuGet is clearly the correct solution here, but there's no public NuGet artifact available for the Microsoft `master.dacpac` file. That's despite...

@iSeiryu to be honest, our recommendation would be to keep using SqlPackage. We support `dotnet publish` as a shortcut for local dev, but per our readme, we recommend using SqlPackage...

Hi @BenjaminAbt - the [1.6.0 release](https://github.com/rr-wfm/MSBuild.Sdk.SqlProj/releases/tag/v1.6.0) added support for PackageReferences to external databases. To do this, you add a `PackageReference` element with the attribute `DatabaseVariableLiteralValue` set to the name of...