COMReference not working in 3.0 preview-3/4

[fubar-coder]

I get an error which seems to be caused by the following COMReference project item:

  <ItemGroup Condition=" '$(TargetFramework)' == 'net461' and '$(OS)' == 'Windows_NT' ">
    <COMReference Include="ADOX.dll">
      <Guid>00000600-0000-0010-8000-00aa006d2ea4</Guid>
      <VersionMajor>6</VersionMajor>
      <VersionMinor>0</VersionMinor>
      <WrapperTool>tlbimp</WrapperTool>
      <Lcid>0</Lcid>
      <Isolated>false</Isolated>
    </COMReference>
  </ItemGroup>

The error message roughly translates to something along the lines: The "ResolveComReference" task couldn't be executed, because MSBuild couldn't create or connect to a task host with runtime "CLR4" and architecture "x86".

I also attached the build log.

build-log.zip

[Pilchie]

@rainersigwald do you know the state of COMReference in the SDK?

[rainersigwald]

It's not expected to work, but it should fail in a clearer way than this. I think that's a bug for Microsoft/MSBuild; I'll move this and describe what the problem is there.

[rainersigwald]

This issue was moved to dotnet/msbuild#4332