You may encounter an error which looks like this: MSB4006: There is a circular dependency in the target dependency graph involving target "ResolveProjectReferences" [MyProjectName\MyProjectName.csproj] …when running MSBuild from the command line. This error happens when: You run MSBuild on a machine with .NET 4.5 installed and You build a project referencing a solution where the SLN file contains dependencies in [...]