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Setup has detected Visual Studio Update 3 may not be completely installed.

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Recently, I installed a new laptop with Visual Studio and the “normal” tool chain. While doing this, I encountered a strange error when installing the .NET Core tools.

NET Core Error

Setup has detected that Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 may not be completely installed. Please repair Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, then install this product again.

However, repairing Visual Studio did not solve the problem. Luckily, I found this StackOverflow post. The problem could easily be solved by starting the setup on the command line with this command:

DotNetCore.1.0.0-VS2015Tools.Preview2.exe SKIP_VSU_CHECK=1

error CS0012: The type ‘IEnumerable’ is defined in an assembly that is not referenced.

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I was setting up a new build server for a .NET project as I have done several times before. It was a TeamCity build server but that is not important for this problem. When trying to build my solution I got this error:

error CS0012: The type 'IEnumerable<>' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'System.Runtime, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'.

Locally the solution compiled just fine. After some research I found some hints that installing the Targeting Pack for my .NET Framework version solves the problem.

I downloaded and installed the target pack for .NET 4.6 from here. Immediately the problem was solved and the solution compiled without any problems.

It compiled locally because the missing DLL that is installed by the Targeting Pack is also installed by Visual Studio. This is just another reason to think about the “no Visual Studio on the build server” rule.