title: No task runner configurations are found?
body: <p>I have (freshly installed) Visual Studio Professional 2017 (V 15.9.4), a <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/solutions-and-projects-in-visual-studio?view=vs-2019" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Visual Studio solution</a> with with multiple projects, a single <code>.sln</code> file and <code>package.json</code>s of the projects in the respective project folders <code>exampleCoorp.API</code>, <code>exampleCoorp.UI</code>, etc. The frontend project is written in React, the others in C#.</p>
  
  <p>When I navigate to <strong>View > Other Windows > Task Runner Explorer</strong> (originally devolved by Mads Kristens, see <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MadsKristensen.TaskRunnerExplorer" rel="nofollow noreferrer">marketplace.visualstudio.com</a>). Since we also have a React part, I have the extension <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MadsKristensen.NPMTaskRunner" rel="nofollow noreferrer">NPM Task Runner</a> installed as well.</p>
  
  <p>I am expected something like the following (screenshot from my team mates whose project-setup instruction I followed):</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Llv3.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Llv3.png" alt="TaskRunnerExplorer expected result"></a></p>
  
  <p>However, the actual result for me looks different:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4eix7.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4eix7.png" alt="TaskRunnerExplorer actual result"></a></p>
  
  <p>The error I have to understand comes from the shown Visual Studio panel:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>No task runner configurations are found.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p><strong>But why? And more importantly, how can I fix it? Is there a workaround?</strong></p>
  
  <p>There is only a single google-hit [<a href="https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/324093/aspnet-core-angular-template-cant-use-vs-npm-integ.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">developercommunity.visualstudio.com</a>] which claims that the (only?) cause could be a misplaced <code>package.json</code> file:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Both problems are caused by the fact that Visual Studio’s NPM integration does not support a package.json file that is in a subfolder instead of the project root. Microsoft’s own official Angular project template requires that the package.json be placed in the /ClientApp subfolder, which is not something that is going to change.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>This is clearly not my issue here. Any help hint is appreciated! </p>