Visual Studio 2015 and Unity: Warning MSB3268 breaks build.

Unity Engine
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Hello there,

Using Unity 5.3.4f1 and VS2015 as an external tool for C# scripting, I came across these warnings when using classes like Text or Button:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(1820,5): warning MSB3268: The primary reference “UnityEditor” could not be resolved because it has an indirect dependency on the framework assembly “System.Xml.Linq, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089” which could not be resolved in the currently targeted framework. “.NETFramework,Version=v3.5,Profile=Unity Web v3.5”. To resolve this problem, either remove the reference “UnityEditor” or retarget your application to a framework version which contains “System.Xml.Linq, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089”.

(Same warning for “UnityEngine.Networking” and “UnityEngine.UI”).

These warnings leads to “error CS0246: The type or namespace name ‘xxx’ could not be found …”

I don’t know what to do, especially when I can’t open the project’s properties page so I can check my target framework.

Any thoughts on the matter ?

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Hey,

Unfortunately that’s a known issue that can happen when the build target in Unity is the Web Player.

If you switch to Windows Standalone it should work all the time.

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It works! Thank you jbevain !