DevOps : master.dacpac does not exist error message in VSTS (part V)

One of the problems I had with automated builds was the database reference in the .sqlproj file. I noticed that the master- and the msdb dacpac was referenced to a location on the C: drive. This works fine in the situation where you're the only developer, but when working together in a team and even more when you use VSTS as your build environment, it is not a good practice. If you try to build in VSTS when the dacpac has a standard location, you'll get a message like this:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\
IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\SQLDB\Extensions\SqlServer\110\SqlSchemas\master.dacpac" 
does not exist.

To get rid of this error message you have to include the master.dacpac (and the msdb.dacpac) file (!) in your project (with location option, add database reference) and so I did...

But building the project in VSTS kept on giving this error. Investigating the .sqlproj file showed me that the reference was still there, even when I deleted the database reference in the solution explorer.

I finally manually removed the entries in the .sqlproj file and the problems were away...

       
<ArtifactReference Include="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\
 Extensions\Microsoft\SQLDB\Extensions\SqlServer\110\SqlSchemas\master.dacpac">
  <HintPath>$(DacPacRootPath)\Extensions\Microsoft\SQLDB\Extensions\SqlServer\110\SqlSchemas\master.dacpac</HintPath>
</ArtifactReference>
<ArtifactReference Include="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\
    Extensions\Microsoft\SQLDB\Extensions\SqlServer\110\SqlSchemas\msdb.dacpac">
      <HintPath>$(DacPacRootPath)\Extensions\Microsoft\SQLDB\Extensions\SqlServer\110\SqlSchemas\msdb.dacpac</HintPath>
</ArtifactReference>   

Hennie