can not find metadata(.dll) file

Dear Stride Developers:
OS: Windows10
IDE: VisualStudio 2026 Insiders
.NET:10.0.101
When I build stride.sln, It happend that:
20>CSC : error CS0006: can not find metadata file“D:\StrideEngine\stride\sources\engine\Stride.SpriteStudio.Offline\bin\Debug\net10.0\Stride.SpriteStudio.Offline.dll”
20>CSC : error CS0006: can not find metadata file“D:\StrideEngine\stride\sources\engine\Stride.SpriteStudio.Runtime\bin\Debug\net10.0\Stride.SpriteStudio.Runtime.dll”
20>CSC : error CS0006: can not find metadata file“D:\StrideEngine\stride\sources\engine\Stride.UI\bin\Debug\net10.0\Stride.UI.dll”
20>CSC : error CS0006: can not find metadata file“D:\StrideEngine\stride\sources\engine\Stride.Video\bin\Debug\net10.0\Direct3D11\Stride.Video.dll”
......

(153 same errors, I won't copy all of them here)

[VaclavElias]

Thanks for reporting. Did you follow these steps?

https://github.com/stride3d/stride?tab=readme-ov-file#%EF%B8%8F-building-from-source

[Doprez]

Most of the time I see this happen its because there is a module missing specifically for MSVC. Make sure you have the 3 components in the image checked in the installer of VS:

The C++ compilers are really bad at throwing useful info in the Stride solution in my experience and will cause a cascade of errors related to missing dlls since one project fails all of the projects after will throw that error.

I just reinstalled Windows 11 and following the build steps shared by Vaclav still seem to be valid apart from the installer renaming the components from "latest" to "v14.44-17.14".

[dogzz9445]

I also recently tried to use this amazing Stride project for the first time. I uninstalled VS Insider and performed a fresh installation of VS 2026. While following the build guidelines, I encountered a build failure for "Stride.VirtualReality".
Since I have sufficient experience with MS development environments, I investigated the issue and found that the following files were missing in

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\18\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\ below

• Microsoft.VCRedistVersion.v143.default.props
• Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.v143.default.props

After manually adding these files, the build completed successfully. This is not a Stride issue per se, and I haven't verified whether it will be resolved in future VS updates. However, it appears that MSVC v143 configuration files may be missing when installing Visual Studio 2026 (especially after uninstalling Insider versions).
This might be a different issue from the one reported here, but I'm leaving my case for reference in case it helps other users in the future.