diff --git a/Directory.Build.props b/Directory.Build.props
index 076c3bf2f79d7..743b9e3575335 100644
--- a/Directory.Build.props
+++ b/Directory.Build.props
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!-- Copyright (c)  Microsoft.  All Rights Reserved.  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.  See License.txt in the project root for license information. -->
 <Project>
-
+  <Import Project="build\Targets\Settings.props" />
 </Project>
 
diff --git a/Directory.Build.targets b/Directory.Build.targets
index 5065a4dc81af2..cf98ae9662f0d 100644
--- a/Directory.Build.targets
+++ b/Directory.Build.targets
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 <!-- Copyright (c)  Microsoft.  All Rights Reserved.  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.  See License.txt in the project root for license information. -->
 <Project>
-
+  <Import Project="build\Targets\Imports.targets" />
 </Project>
diff --git a/build/Targets/BeforeCommonTargets.targets b/build/Targets/BeforeCommonTargets.targets
index 076c3bf2f79d7..fca3823307af1 100644
--- a/build/Targets/BeforeCommonTargets.targets
+++ b/build/Targets/BeforeCommonTargets.targets
@@ -1,5 +1,111 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <!-- Copyright (c)  Microsoft.  All Rights Reserved.  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.  See License.txt in the project root for license information. -->
 <Project>
 
+  <Choose>
+    <When Condition="'$(RoslynProjectType)' == 'UnitTest' OR '$(RoslynProjectType)' == 'UnitTestPortable'">
+      <PropertyGroup>
+        <_IsAnyUnitTest>true</_IsAnyUnitTest>
+        <_NeedRuntimeAssets>true</_NeedRuntimeAssets> 
+        <CopyNuGetImplementations>true</CopyNuGetImplementations>
+        <OutputPath>$(OutputPath)UnitTests\$(MSBuildProjectName)\</OutputPath>
+      </PropertyGroup>
+    </When>
+    <When Condition="'$(RoslynProjectType)' == 'Vsix'">
+      <PropertyGroup>
+        <_CopyReferences>false</_CopyReferences>
+        <_NeedRuntimeAssets>true</_NeedRuntimeAssets> 
+        <CopyNuGetImplementations>true</CopyNuGetImplementations>
+        <OutputPath>$(OutputPath)Vsix\$(MSBuildProjectName)\</OutputPath>
+      </PropertyGroup>
+    </When>
+    <When Condition="'$(RoslynProjectType)' == 'Custom'">
+      <!-- Do nothing -->
+    </When>
+    <When Condition="'$(RoslynProjectType)' == '' AND '$(OutputType)' == 'Library'">
+      <PropertyGroup>
+        <_CopyReferences>false</_CopyReferences>
+        <_CopyProjectReferences>false</_CopyProjectReferences>
+        <CopyNuGetImplementations>false</CopyNuGetImplementations>
+        <OutputPath>$(OutputPath)Dlls\$(MSBuildProjectName)\</OutputPath>
+        <ProduceReferenceAssembly>true</ProduceReferenceAssembly>
+      </PropertyGroup>
+    </When>
+    <When Condition="'$(RoslynProjectType)' == '' AND '$(OutputType)' == 'Exe'">
+      <PropertyGroup>
+        <_NeedRuntimeAssets>true</_NeedRuntimeAssets> 
+        <CopyNuGetImplementations>true</CopyNuGetImplementations>
+        <OutputPath>$(OutputPath)Exes\$(MSBuildProjectName)\</OutputPath>
+        <ProduceReferenceAssembly>true</ProduceReferenceAssembly>
+      </PropertyGroup>
+    </When>
+    <When Condition="'$(RoslynProjectType)' == '' AND '$(OutputType)' == 'WinExe'">
+      <PropertyGroup>
+        <_NeedRuntimeAssets>true</_NeedRuntimeAssets> 
+        <CopyNuGetImplementations>true</CopyNuGetImplementations>
+        <OutputPath>$(OutputPath)Exes\$(MSBuildProjectName)\</OutputPath>
+        <ProduceReferenceAssembly>true</ProduceReferenceAssembly>
+      </PropertyGroup>
+    </When>
+  </Choose>
+
+  <!-- 
+    DocumentationFile needs to be set before importing common targets. 
+
+    C# common targets (unlike VB) prefix DocumentationFile path with IntermediateOutputPath. However, using that here does not work with multi-targeting as
+    the IntermediateOutputPath will not yet have the TargetFramework appended, which will lead to a race where parallel builds for different TargetFrameworks
+    attempt to write the doc xml to the same xml location. Instead, we can simply set GenerateDocumentationFile=true and let the SDK pick the correct path.
+
+    Ideally, we'd just use the same construct for VB here, but that is currently blocked by https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/1598.
+  -->
+  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(GenerateDocumentationFile)' == '' AND '$(DocumentationFile)' == '' AND '$(NoDocumentationFile)' != 'true' AND '$(AssemblyName)' != ''">
+    <DocumentationFile Condition="'$(ProjectLanguage)' == 'VB'">$(AssemblyName).xml</DocumentationFile>
+    <GenerateDocumentationFile Condition="'$(ProjectLanguage)' == 'CSharp'">true</GenerateDocumentationFile>
+  </PropertyGroup>
+
+  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(TargetFrameworks)' != ''">
+    <IntermediateOutputPath>$(IntermediateOutputPath)$(TargetFramework.ToLowerInvariant())\</IntermediateOutputPath>
+    <OutputPath>$(OutputPath)$(TargetFramework.ToLowerInvariant())\</OutputPath>
+  </PropertyGroup>
+
+  <!-- If the project hasn't configured a ruleset, set a default ruleset. -->
+  <Choose>
+    <When Condition="'$(CodeAnalysisRuleSet)' == ''">
+      <Choose>
+        <!-- We have different default rulesets for Build versus Running Code Analysis. -->
+        <When Condition="'$(RunCodeAnalysis)' == 'true' OR '$(RunCodeAnalysisOnce)' == 'true'">
+          <PropertyGroup>
+            <DefaultRulesetSuffix>_RunCodeAnalysisRules</DefaultRulesetSuffix>
+          </PropertyGroup>
+        </When>
+        <Otherwise>
+          <PropertyGroup>
+            <DefaultRulesetSuffix>_BuildRules</DefaultRulesetSuffix>
+          </PropertyGroup>
+        </Otherwise>
+      </Choose>
+
+      <PropertyGroup>
+        <CodeAnalysisRuleSet Condition="'$(CodeAnalysisRuleSet)' == '' AND '$(NonShipping)' == 'true'">$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)..\Rulesets\NonShippingProject$(DefaultRulesetSuffix).ruleset</CodeAnalysisRuleSet>
+        <CodeAnalysisRuleSet Condition="'$(CodeAnalysisRuleSet)' == '' AND '$(AnalyzerProject)' == 'true'">$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)..\Rulesets\AnalyzerProject$(DefaultRulesetSuffix).ruleset</CodeAnalysisRuleSet>
+        <CodeAnalysisRuleSet Condition="'$(CodeAnalysisRuleSet)' == ''">$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)..\Rulesets\Roslyn$(DefaultRulesetSuffix).ruleset</CodeAnalysisRuleSet>
+      </PropertyGroup>
+    </When>
+  </Choose>
+
+  <!--
+    If TargetNetFX20 is true the project targets Framework 2.0 reference assemblies provided by Microsoft.NetFX20 nuget package.
+    Use the latest Framework toolset to build, but set msbuild properties below
+    so to avoid 4.5 specific artifacts to be added to the compilation (references, attributes).
+  -->
+  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(TargetNetFX20)' == 'true'">
+    <GenerateTargetFrameworkAttribute>false</GenerateTargetFrameworkAttribute>
+    <AddAdditionalExplicitAssemblyReferences>false</AddAdditionalExplicitAssemblyReferences>
+    <NoStdLib>true</NoStdLib>
+    <FrameworkPathOverride>$(NuGetPackageRoot)\Microsoft.NetFX20\$(MicrosoftNetFX20Version)\lib\net20</FrameworkPathOverride>
+    <ExecuteAsTool>false</ExecuteAsTool>
+    <GenerateResourceMSBuildRuntime>CurrentRuntime</GenerateResourceMSBuildRuntime>
+  </PropertyGroup>
+
 </Project>
 
diff --git a/build/Targets/Imports.targets b/build/Targets/Imports.targets
index a812de52c3b34..29eceff865d9c 100644
--- a/build/Targets/Imports.targets
+++ b/build/Targets/Imports.targets
@@ -2,66 +2,6 @@
 <!-- Copyright (c)  Microsoft.  All Rights Reserved.  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.  See License.txt in the project root for license information. -->
 <Project ToolsVersion="14.0" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
 
-  <Choose>
-    <When Condition="'$(RoslynProjectType)' == 'UnitTest' OR '$(RoslynProjectType)' == 'UnitTestPortable'">
-      <PropertyGroup>
-        <_IsAnyUnitTest>true</_IsAnyUnitTest>
-        <_NeedRuntimeAssets>true</_NeedRuntimeAssets> 
-        <CopyNuGetImplementations>true</CopyNuGetImplementations>
-        <OutputPath>$(OutputPath)UnitTests\$(MSBuildProjectName)\</OutputPath>
-      </PropertyGroup>
-    </When>
-    <When Condition="'$(RoslynProjectType)' == 'Vsix'">
-      <PropertyGroup>
-        <_CopyReferences>false</_CopyReferences>
-        <_NeedRuntimeAssets>true</_NeedRuntimeAssets> 
-        <CopyNuGetImplementations>true</CopyNuGetImplementations>
-        <OutputPath>$(OutputPath)Vsix\$(MSBuildProjectName)\</OutputPath>
-      </PropertyGroup>
-    </When>
-    <When Condition="'$(RoslynProjectType)' == 'Custom'">
-      <!-- Do nothing -->
-    </When>
-    <When Condition="'$(RoslynProjectType)' == '' AND '$(OutputType)' == 'Library'">
-      <PropertyGroup>
-        <_CopyReferences>false</_CopyReferences>
-        <_CopyProjectReferences>false</_CopyProjectReferences>
-        <CopyNuGetImplementations>false</CopyNuGetImplementations>
-        <OutputPath>$(OutputPath)Dlls\$(MSBuildProjectName)\</OutputPath>
-        <ProduceReferenceAssembly>true</ProduceReferenceAssembly>
-      </PropertyGroup>
-    </When>
-    <When Condition="'$(RoslynProjectType)' == '' AND '$(OutputType)' == 'Exe'">
-      <PropertyGroup>
-        <_NeedRuntimeAssets>true</_NeedRuntimeAssets> 
-        <CopyNuGetImplementations>true</CopyNuGetImplementations>
-        <OutputPath>$(OutputPath)Exes\$(MSBuildProjectName)\</OutputPath>
-        <ProduceReferenceAssembly>true</ProduceReferenceAssembly>
-      </PropertyGroup>
-    </When>
-    <When Condition="'$(RoslynProjectType)' == '' AND '$(OutputType)' == 'WinExe'">
-      <PropertyGroup>
-        <_NeedRuntimeAssets>true</_NeedRuntimeAssets> 
-        <CopyNuGetImplementations>true</CopyNuGetImplementations>
-        <OutputPath>$(OutputPath)Exes\$(MSBuildProjectName)\</OutputPath>
-        <ProduceReferenceAssembly>true</ProduceReferenceAssembly>
-      </PropertyGroup>
-    </When>
-  </Choose>
-
-  <!-- 
-    DocumentationFile needs to be set before importing common targets. 
-
-    C# common targets (unlike VB) prefix DocumentationFile path with IntermediateOutputPath. However, using that here does not work with multi-targeting as
-    the IntermediateOutputPath will not yet have the TargetFramework appended, which will lead to a race where parallel builds for different TargetFrameworks
-    attempt to write the doc xml to the same xml location. Instead, we can simply set GenerateDocumentationFile=true and let the SDK pick the correct path.
-
-    Ideally, we'd just use the same construct for VB here, but that is currently blocked by https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/1598.
-  -->
-  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(GenerateDocumentationFile)' == '' AND '$(DocumentationFile)' == '' AND '$(NoDocumentationFile)' != 'true' AND '$(AssemblyName)' != ''">
-    <DocumentationFile Condition="'$(ProjectLanguage)' == 'VB'">$(AssemblyName).xml</DocumentationFile>
-    <GenerateDocumentationFile Condition="'$(ProjectLanguage)' == 'CSharp'">true</GenerateDocumentationFile>
-  </PropertyGroup>
   
   <PropertyGroup>
     <RoslynPublicKey>0024000004800000940000000602000000240000525341310004000001000100b5fc90e7027f67871e773a8fde8938c81dd402ba65b9201d60593e96c492651e889cc13f1415ebb53fac1131ae0bd333c5ee6021672d9718ea31a8aebd0da0072f25d87dba6fc90ffd598ed4da35e44c398c454307e8e33b8426143daec9f596836f97c8f74750e5975c64e2189f45def46b2a2b1247adc3652bf5c308055da9</RoslynPublicKey>
@@ -82,8 +22,6 @@
     <!-- The netstandard 1.3 package by default includes Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.  That's a bit
          of a non-starter since we build it.  Using manual references for now -->
     <DisableImplicitFrameworkReferences Condition="'$(DisableImplicitFrameworkReferences)' == ''" >true</DisableImplicitFrameworkReferences>
-    <AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath Condition="'$(TargetFrameworks)' == ''">false</AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>
-    <AppendRuntimeIdentifierToOutputPath>false</AppendRuntimeIdentifierToOutputPath>
       
     <!-- Only generate our runtimeconfig.json files for net core apps. It's unnecessary in desktop projects
          but gets included in lots of output items like VSIX. -->
@@ -96,31 +34,6 @@
 
   </PropertyGroup>
 
-  <!-- If the project hasn't configured a ruleset, set a default ruleset. -->
-  <Choose>
-    <When Condition="'$(CodeAnalysisRuleSet)' == ''">
-      <Choose>
-        <!-- We have different default rulesets for Build versus Running Code Analysis. -->
-        <When Condition="'$(RunCodeAnalysis)' == 'true' OR '$(RunCodeAnalysisOnce)' == 'true'">
-          <PropertyGroup>
-            <DefaultRulesetSuffix>_RunCodeAnalysisRules</DefaultRulesetSuffix>
-          </PropertyGroup>
-        </When>
-        <Otherwise>
-          <PropertyGroup>
-            <DefaultRulesetSuffix>_BuildRules</DefaultRulesetSuffix>
-          </PropertyGroup>
-        </Otherwise>
-      </Choose>
-
-      <PropertyGroup>
-        <CodeAnalysisRuleSet Condition="'$(CodeAnalysisRuleSet)' == '' AND '$(NonShipping)' == 'true'">$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)..\Rulesets\NonShippingProject$(DefaultRulesetSuffix).ruleset</CodeAnalysisRuleSet>
-        <CodeAnalysisRuleSet Condition="'$(CodeAnalysisRuleSet)' == '' AND '$(AnalyzerProject)' == 'true'">$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)..\Rulesets\AnalyzerProject$(DefaultRulesetSuffix).ruleset</CodeAnalysisRuleSet>
-        <CodeAnalysisRuleSet Condition="'$(CodeAnalysisRuleSet)' == ''">$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)..\Rulesets\Roslyn$(DefaultRulesetSuffix).ruleset</CodeAnalysisRuleSet>
-      </PropertyGroup>
-    </When>
-  </Choose>
-
   <!-- Settings for localization -->
   <ItemGroup>
     <PackageReference Include="XliffTasks" Version="$(XliffTasksVersion)" PrivateAssets="All" Condition="'$(NonShipping)' != 'true'" />
@@ -208,8 +121,6 @@
     </SuggestedBindingRedirects>
   </ItemGroup>
 
-  <Import Project="Sdk.targets" Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk" />
-
   <!-- It looks like MSBuild has a bug on *nix where they aggressively
        directory separators from '\'to '/', even when the '\'
        is being used as an escape character in a define constant in VB.
diff --git a/build/Targets/Settings.props b/build/Targets/Settings.props
index ff878872a7474..acab104ac0187 100644
--- a/build/Targets/Settings.props
+++ b/build/Targets/Settings.props
@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@
 
     <EnableSourceLink Condition="'$(DeveloperBuild)' != 'true'">true</EnableSourceLink>
     <EnableDefaultNoneItems>false</EnableDefaultNoneItems>
+    <AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>false</AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>
+    <AppendRuntimeIdentifierToOutputPath>false</AppendRuntimeIdentifierToOutputPath>
 
     <!-- It is only intended to automatically run update during dev cycle. However, It will fail the build on CI if the XLF file is not updated.
          XLF file should be checked in and loc team will update the XLF it with translated version.
@@ -165,20 +167,6 @@
     <VisualStudioBuildToolsVersion Condition="'$(IsDev14VsiBuild)' == 'true'">14.3.25420</VisualStudioBuildToolsVersion>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
-  <!--
-    If TargetNetFX20 is true the project targets Framework 2.0 reference assemblies provided by Microsoft.NetFX20 nuget package.
-    Use the latest Framework toolset to build, but set msbuild properties below
-    so to avoid 4.5 specific artifacts to be added to the compilation (references, attributes).
-  -->
-  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(TargetNetFX20)' == 'true'">
-    <GenerateTargetFrameworkAttribute>false</GenerateTargetFrameworkAttribute>
-    <AddAdditionalExplicitAssemblyReferences>false</AddAdditionalExplicitAssemblyReferences>
-    <NoStdLib>true</NoStdLib>
-    <FrameworkPathOverride>$(NuGetPackageRoot)\Microsoft.NetFX20\$(MicrosoftNetFX20Version)\lib\net20</FrameworkPathOverride>
-    <ExecuteAsTool>false</ExecuteAsTool>
-    <GenerateResourceMSBuildRuntime>CurrentRuntime</GenerateResourceMSBuildRuntime>
-  </PropertyGroup>
-
   <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(DevEnvDir)' == ''">
     <DevEnvDir>$([System.Environment]::ExpandEnvironmentVariables("%VS$(VisualStudioReferenceMajorVersion)0COMNTOOLS%"))</DevEnvDir>
     <DevEnvDir>$(DevEnvDir)\..\IDE</DevEnvDir>
@@ -211,8 +199,6 @@
              AssemblyFile="$(NuGetPackageRoot)\Roslyn.Build.Util\$(RoslynBuildUtilVersion)\lib\net46\Roslyn.MSBuild.Util.dll"
              Condition="'$(OS)' == 'Windows_NT'" />
 
-  <Import Project="Sdk.props" Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk" />
-
   <Import Project="$(RoslynDiagnosticsPropsFilePath)" Condition="'$(UseRoslynAnalyzers)' == 'true' AND Exists('$(RoslynDiagnosticsPropsFilePath)')" />
 
   <ImportGroup Label="WindowsImports" Condition="'$(OS)' == 'Windows_NT'">
diff --git a/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/CompilersPackage/Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Compilers.swixproj b/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/CompilersPackage/Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Compilers.swixproj
index d3d9794cb4894..bb97ee47d616b 100644
--- a/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/CompilersPackage/Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Compilers.swixproj
+++ b/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/CompilersPackage/Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Compilers.swixproj
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
     <OutputPath>$(OutputPath)Vsix\CodeAnalysisCompilers</OutputPath>
     <IsPackage>true</IsPackage>
     <OutputType>vsix</OutputType>
+    <ImportDirectoryBuildProps>false</ImportDirectoryBuildProps>
+    <ImportDirectoryBuildTargets>false</ImportDirectoryBuildTargets>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <Import Project="$(NuGetPackageRoot)\MicroBuild.Core\$(MicroBuildCoreVersion)\build\MicroBuild.Core.props" />
diff --git a/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/CompilersPackage/Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Compilers.vsmanproj b/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/CompilersPackage/Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Compilers.vsmanproj
index 4da6302d5f1a0..90d01af36681b 100644
--- a/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/CompilersPackage/Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Compilers.vsmanproj
+++ b/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/CompilersPackage/Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Compilers.vsmanproj
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
     <IsPackage>true</IsPackage>
     <FinalizeValidate>false</FinalizeValidate>
     <ValidateManifest>false</ValidateManifest>
+    <ImportDirectoryBuildProps>false</ImportDirectoryBuildProps>
+    <ImportDirectoryBuildTargets>false</ImportDirectoryBuildTargets>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <Import Project="$(NuGetPackageRoot)\MicroBuild.Core\$(MicroBuildCoreVersion)\build\MicroBuild.Core.props" />
diff --git a/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/MicrosoftCodeAnalysisLanguageServices/Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.LanguageServices.vsmanproj b/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/MicrosoftCodeAnalysisLanguageServices/Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.LanguageServices.vsmanproj
index 933e6ad67e188..bbf0554d49f7d 100644
--- a/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/MicrosoftCodeAnalysisLanguageServices/Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.LanguageServices.vsmanproj
+++ b/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/MicrosoftCodeAnalysisLanguageServices/Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.LanguageServices.vsmanproj
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
     <IsPackage>true</IsPackage>
     <FinalizeValidate>false</FinalizeValidate>
     <ValidateManifest>false</ValidateManifest>
+    <ImportDirectoryBuildProps>false</ImportDirectoryBuildProps>
+    <ImportDirectoryBuildTargets>false</ImportDirectoryBuildTargets>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <Import Project="$(NuGetPackageRoot)\MicroBuild.Core\$(MicroBuildCoreVersion)\build\MicroBuild.Core.props" />
diff --git a/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/PortableFacades/PortableFacades.swixproj b/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/PortableFacades/PortableFacades.swixproj
index 94217877cf0c2..7c057ca15a304 100644
--- a/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/PortableFacades/PortableFacades.swixproj
+++ b/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/PortableFacades/PortableFacades.swixproj
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
     <OutputPath>$(OutputPath)\Vsix\PortableFacades</OutputPath>
     <IsPackage>true</IsPackage>
     <OutputType>vsix</OutputType>
+    <ImportDirectoryBuildProps>false</ImportDirectoryBuildProps>
+    <ImportDirectoryBuildTargets>false</ImportDirectoryBuildTargets>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <Import Project="$(NuGetPackageRoot)\MicroBuild.Core\$(MicroBuildCoreVersion)\build\MicroBuild.Core.props" />
diff --git a/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/PortableFacades/PortableFacades.vsmanproj b/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/PortableFacades/PortableFacades.vsmanproj
index 427dc302302ee..76d6992e448ec 100644
--- a/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/PortableFacades/PortableFacades.vsmanproj
+++ b/src/Setup/DevDivVsix/PortableFacades/PortableFacades.vsmanproj
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
     <IsPackage>true</IsPackage>
     <FinalizeValidate>false</FinalizeValidate>
     <ValidateManifest>false</ValidateManifest>
+    <ImportDirectoryBuildProps>false</ImportDirectoryBuildProps>
+    <ImportDirectoryBuildTargets>false</ImportDirectoryBuildTargets>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <Import Project="$(NuGetPackageRoot)\MicroBuild.Core\$(MicroBuildCoreVersion)\build\MicroBuild.Core.props" />
diff --git a/src/Tools/ILAsm/Program.cs b/src/Tools/ILAsm/Program.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f289d4dc1cee8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Tools/ILAsm/Program.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+using System;
+
+internal static class Program
+{
+    internal static void Main()
+    {
+        throw new Exception("This should not be run");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/Workspaces/VisualBasicTest/VisualBasicServicesTest.vbproj b/src/Workspaces/VisualBasicTest/VisualBasicServicesTest.vbproj
index 4c62f65883eac..e73939b4fc533 100644
--- a/src/Workspaces/VisualBasicTest/VisualBasicServicesTest.vbproj
+++ b/src/Workspaces/VisualBasicTest/VisualBasicServicesTest.vbproj
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
     <TargetFramework>net461</TargetFramework>
     <RuntimeIdentifier>$(RoslynDesktopRuntimeIdentifier)</RuntimeIdentifier>
     <RoslynProjectType>UnitTest</RoslynProjectType>
+    <RootNamespace></RootNamespace>
   </PropertyGroup>
   <ItemGroup Label="Project References">
     <ProjectReference Include="..\..\Compilers\Core\Portable\CodeAnalysis.csproj" />