MS-Build 2017 “Microsoft.WebApplication.targets ” is missing

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Looks like you are missing the workload for “Web development build tools”: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.WebBuildTools.

You can install it by downloading the build tools installer from here (VS2017) or here (VS2019) then running

vs_buildtools.exe --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.WebBuildTools

or opening vs_buildtools.exe and selecting the “Web development build tools” component in the GUI:

screenshot from GUI

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