devbuild failing - sfxca.rc

[chrpai]

I have VS Community 17.5.3 with the workloads and components specified in the README.rc. My fork is in sync and I'm on the develop branch. When I run devbuild.cmd I get this error:

C:\GitHub\wix4\src\Directory.vcxproj.targets(21,5): error MSB4096: The item "SfxCA.rc" in item list "ResourceCompile" d
oes not define a value for metadata "Culture". In order to use this metadata, either qualify it by specifying %(Resour
ceCompile.Culture), or ensure that all items in this list define a value for this metadata. [C:\GitHub\wix4\src\dtf\Sfx
CA\SfxCA.vcxproj]

What am I doing wrong?

[chrpai]

Worked on another machine. Complete uninstall/reinstall of VS and the problem is gone.

[chrpai]

I've seen this on another machine. I tried installing different Git versions but no luck. Uninstall/reinstall of VS fixed the problem again. This time I captured what components were installed befroe and after. The following are new components that weren't previously installed.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Roslyn.Compiler
Microsoft.Component.MSBuild
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Roslyn.LanguageServices
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.MSODBC.SQL
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.MSSQL.CMDLnUtils
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.SQL.LocalDB.Runtime
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.SQL.CLR
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Debugger.Snapshot
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.IntelliTrace.FrontEnd
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.LiveUnitTesting
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.ClassDesigner
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.GraphDocument
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.CodeMap
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Node.Tools
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Node
Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.ArchitectureTools.Native
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.ARM64EC
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.ARM64

The problem is coming out of this block. Some how %(Culture) doesn't resolve when it fails.

%(PreprocessorDefinitions); GITVER_FILEVER=$(FileVersion.Replace('.', ',')); GITVER_PRODUCTVER=$(AssemblyVersion.Replace('.', ',')); GITVER_FILE_VERSION=$(FileVersion); GITVER_PRODUCT_VERSION=$(AssemblyVersion); GITVER_FILE_TYPE=$(_ResourceFileType); GITVER_CODEPAGE=0; GITVER_LCID=$([System.Convert]::ToInt32('%(Culture)', 16)); GITVER_VERSION_BLOCK=$([System.Convert]::ToString($([MSBuild]::Multiply($([System.Convert]::ToUint64('%(Culture)', 16)), 65536)), 16).PadLeft(8, '0')); GITVER_COMPANY=$(Company); GITVER_COPYRIGHT=$(Copyright); GITVER_TITLE=$(Title); GITVER_PRODUCT=$(Product); GITVER_INFORMATIONAL_VERSION=$(InformationalVersion); GITVER_INTERNAL_NAME=$(TargetName); GITVER_FILE_NAME=$(TargetFileName);

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