diff --git a/src/installer/corehost/build.proj b/src/installer/corehost/build.proj
index 73f3ce93cdec540912c63cf2b169e5a570204dae..78a7f2042b6ab73f192496451aae6595f0f2f4d5 100644
--- a/src/installer/corehost/build.proj
+++ b/src/installer/corehost/build.proj
@@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
 <Project>
-  <Import Project="$([MSBuild]::GetDirectoryNameOfFileAbove($(MSBuildThisFileDirectory), Directory.Build.props))\Directory.Build.props" />
-  <Import Project="$([MSBuild]::GetDirectoryNameOfFileAbove($(MSBuildThisFileDirectory), Directory.Build.targets))\Directory.Build.targets" />
+  <Import Project="Sdk.props" Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk" />
 
   <!--
-    Always disable sourcelink in this project so that Arcade doesn't complain about 'The target
-    "InitializeSourceControlInformationFromSourceControlManager" does not exist in the project.'.
+    Add basic project properties for NuGet restore, needed to import the SourceLink MSBuild tool
+    package's targets into the build.
   -->
-  <Import Project="$(RepositoryEngineeringDir)/DisableSourceControlManagement.targets"
-          Condition="'$(DisableSourceControlManagementTargetsImported)' != 'true'" />
+  <PropertyGroup>
+    <TargetFramework>$(NETCoreAppFramework)</TargetFramework>
+  </PropertyGroup>
+
+  <Import Project="Sdk.targets" Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk" />
 
   <!-- Target that builds dotnet, hostfxr and hostpolicy with the same version as what NetCoreApp will be built for
        since the build produced artifacts should always version the same (even if they may not get used).
@@ -19,11 +21,6 @@
             BuildCoreHostUnix;
             BuildCoreHostWindows" />
 
-  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(OSGroup)' != 'Windows_NT'">
-    <GenerateVersionSourceFile>true</GenerateVersionSourceFile>
-    <NativeVersionSourceFile>$(ObjDir)version.cpp</NativeVersionSourceFile>
-  </PropertyGroup>
-
   <Target Name="BuildCoreHostUnix"
           Condition="'$(OSGroup)' != 'Windows_NT'"
           DependsOnTargets="GetLatestCommitHash;GenerateNativeVersionFile">
diff --git a/src/installer/corehost/build.sh b/src/installer/corehost/build.sh
index f5f8c4abdc3fd19ee0a2656f37d55c449f984d98..fb503e74f074c52a15f3538860e90ef5e39e4665 100755
--- a/src/installer/corehost/build.sh
+++ b/src/installer/corehost/build.sh
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ __configuration=Debug
 __linkPortable=0
 __cmake_defines=
 __baseIntermediateOutputPath="$RootRepo/artifacts/obj"
-__versionSourceFile="$__baseIntermediateOutputPath/version.cpp"
+__versionSourceFile="$__baseIntermediateOutputPath/_version.c"
 __cmake_bin_prefix=
 
 while [ "$1" != "" ]; do