dotnet build with Microsoft.NETFramework.ReferenceAssemblies can't find 'Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll'

[daveMueller]

Hello,

I'm currently trying to build a Visual Basic project with target framework v4.7.2 via dotnet build on linux. As far as I know this should be possible when using the package Microsoft.NETFramework.ReferenceAssemblies as described here.
Nevertheless the build job is failing with vbc : error BC2017: could not find library 'Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll'. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. The nuget package definitely contains the dll but the build on linux somehow doesn't find it.

To be precise, this is the PR where I'm facing this issue (coverlet-coverage/coverlet#1073). I'm thankful for any help.

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[marcpopMSFT]

We remember vaguely fixing something around VB a while back related to this. Please try again and let us know if it's still an issue. Not sure if building with the framework reference assemblies is supported on linux and we can dig into that if it's still an issue.