WPF features are not available in MGCB Pipeline

What you’re experiencing is probably something similar to this Pipeline extension 3.8 not finding nuget files

I was able to get the assembly not found errors to go away from the core project by

  1. Adding <CopyLocalLockFileAssemblies>true</CopyLocalLockFileAssemblies> to the csproj
  2. Manually copying over all the assemblies in the framework “Microsoft.Windows.Desktop.App.WPF” you can the path on your computer by clicking the node in Visual studio.

All the assemblies has to be in the SAME DIRECTORY as the .mgcb file.

This got reported to the bug tracket but unfortunately closed as “by design”. You may want to report this problem there in case it makes them reconsider https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/7368