Jonathan Dodds

@rainersigwald Thanks for the response. Please assign this issue to me. I wasn't aware that it is now possible to pass a target to the solution that doesn't exist on...

Some observations: Given a sol.sln that contains projects a.proj and b.proj; The ability to pass project name and target to the solution (e.g the following code) is [documented](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/msbuild/how-to-build-specific-targets-in-solutions-by-using-msbuild-exe?view=vs-2022). ``` msbuild...

@rainersigwald It may be helpful to split a new issue out from this issue: - [x] Don't build a solution when -preprocess or -targets is passed on the command line...

@Mal-Ayers I investigated this issue. My findings follow: - The error message ('The task factory "RoslynCodeTaskFactory" could not be loaded...') is incorrect and misleading and the real error is not...

@rainersigwald Please assign this issue to me.

Attached a .zip with both the html and xml files. [Microsoft.Build.Engine.UnitTests_net6.0_x64.zip](https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/files/8564168/Microsoft.Build.Engine.UnitTests_net6.0_x64.zip)

@Forgind Yes I can try to capture traces for this issue.

@Forgind I tried to capture traces but it didn't seem to work and I haven't had an opportunity to investigate. I found the gist [Debugging Node Communication in MSBuild](https://gist.github.com/BenVillalobos/85aa750daa7017791a3e3fdd6746934d) but...

I just retested with `./build.sh -test` and this is still an issue. I will work on retrieving the logs. I haven't retried with the more detailed instructions.

I saw PR #8073 had been merged. I tested and can confirm that two tests that were failing are now passing: `Microsoft.Build.UnitTests.XmakeAttributesTest.TestArchitectureValuesMatch` and `Microsoft.Build.UnitTests.XmakeAttributesTest.TestMergeArchitectureValues`. I also see a new failing...