visual studio 2015 - Microsoft.DotNet.Props was not found

Question

I have some error while loading the .net project solution. the error will be like

The imported project "C:Program Files(x86)MSBuildMicrosoftVisualStudiov14.0DotNetMicrosoft.DotNet.Props" was not found.Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exist on disk.

How to solve this problem?

Answer 1

Although this question has already been answered. I recently came across the same issue. The more specific answer is that you need to install the Visual Studio 2015 Tools (Preview 2):

https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/core

Direct Download:

https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=827546

Because this wasn't straight forward and I was working on a 1.1 dotnet core project, I accidentally skipped this step and only installed the Windows SDK. I reported an issue here:

https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/378