Summary

After update driver from version 2.12.x to version 2.16, All continuous integration build that publish web projects fails with an error. Same error happens in local publish.

Driver version 2.16.0

How to Reproduce

We have a regular asp.net MVC 4.8 project that we publish with the commandline (publishing within Visual Studio works, only publish with msbuild via commandline fails)

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Preview\MSBuild\Current\Bin\msbuild.exe" "C:\dev\....\Jarvis.Web.csproj" /nologo /nr:false /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:WebPublishMethod=Package /p:PackageAsSingleFile=true /p:SkipInvalidConfigurations=true /p:OutDir=C:\dev\jarvis_deploy\cli /p:configuration="release"

This commandline will fail with the error

[error]src\packages\MSBuild.Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.targets.14.0.0.3\tools\VSToolsPath\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets(187,5): Error MSB3094: "DestinationFiles" refers to 1 item(s), and "SourceFiles" refers to 2 item(s). They must have the same number of items.

Additional Background

The error seems to be in .target version that comes in nuget package of driver version 2.16.0, we solved temporarily the issue using a modified version of the package.