VS 2019 中的 master.dacpac 来自哪里？

Question

We have some build tasks that run and for the life of me I can't figure out why the ms build tools isn't installing the master.dacpac file needed for the master and the msdb dacpac files.

Here's where it lives now:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\SQLDB\Extensions\SqlServer\150\SQLSchemas

Currently, in VS2019 Professional it is added with the Data Storage and Processing Workload. SQL Server Data Tools is a dependency for several other workloads, such as:

ASP.NET and web development ASP.NET and web development tools Azure Data Lake and Stream Analytics Tools Cloud tools for web development In MS Build Tools, I noticed that the dacpac file isn't generated after installing the Data Tools workload.

Am I looking in the wrong place? What is generating the master.dacpac and the msdb.dacpac in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\SQLDB\Extensions\SqlServer\150\SQLSchemas?

Answer 1

Am I looking in the wrong place? What is generating the master.dacpac and the system.dacpac in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\SQLDB\Extensions\SqlServer\150\SQLSchemas?

As far as l know, the master.dacpac and msdb.dacpac files are just like templates which you will use as a default database in your project. They are being used in developing a database project in VS2019.

Test

I have installed a new VS2019 Professional version in my machine. Firstly, I installed the workload .Net desktop development and the files were not generated in the target path. Then I installed the Data Storage and processing workload and found the files were installed. After that, I tried to install the corresponding module in the Build Tool, but that did not generate the files.

Based on this, I can confirm that this file is generated when you are installing Data Storage and processing workload in the VS2019 IDE rather than Build Tool.

Further, for Build Tool which is used for building projects including database projects, the files will not be generated when installing Build Tool, it is just by designed.

Sample

<ArtifactReference Include="$(DacPacRootPath)\Extensions\Microsoft\SQLDB\Extensions\SqlServer\150\SqlSchemas\master.dacpac">
      <HintPath>$(DacPacRootPath)\Extensions\Microsoft\SQLDB\Extensions\SqlServer\150\SqlSchemas\master.dacpac</HintPath>
    <SuppressMissingDependenciesErrors>False</SuppressMissingDependenciesErrors>
    <DatabaseVariableLiteralValue>master</DatabaseVariableLiteralValue></ArtifactReference>

When you reference the system database when developing in VS2019, the hintpath will be

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\SQLDB\Extensions\SqlServer\150\SQLSchemas`.

And $(DacPacRootPath) will choose like C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\Common7\IDE .

But when you use Build Tool to build this project in another machine without installing VS2019, you could facethis issue which was reported by some customers.

>> If you face it, you can refer to it and Microsoft seems to have a fix in the latest version of MSBuild Tool.

In addition , if you just want MSBuild Tool to generate the master.dacpac file in MSBuild folder, you can suggest a feature toDC Forum to reflect it.

Hope it can help you.

Answer 2

As Lance Li suggested these files are indeed being installed, not generated And yes, there was a bug in VS 2019 Build Tools which was fixed in 16.4.1 version of Build Tools .