diff --git a/src/MainSlnCommon.props b/src/MainSlnCommon.props
index 86a82668ab..2409aff993 100644
--- a/src/MainSlnCommon.props
+++ b/src/MainSlnCommon.props
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 		<AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>false</AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>
 		<DebugType>embedded</DebugType>
 		<DefineConstants>$(DefineConstants);AVI_SUPPORT</DefineConstants>
-		<DocumentationFile>$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)/bin/doc_comments.xml</DocumentationFile>
+		<GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile> <!-- it would be nice to rename these to *.api_reference.xml or something, but it seems https://github.com/dotnet/standard/issues/614 was never fixed -->
 		<NoWarn>$(NoWarn);CS1573;CS1591;NU1702</NoWarn>
 		<ResolveAssemblyWarnOrErrorOnTargetArchitectureMismatch>None</ResolveAssemblyWarnOrErrorOnTargetArchitectureMismatch>
 	</PropertyGroup>