How do I run msbuild from the command line using Windows SDK 7.1?
I’m setting up .NET 4.0 support on our CI server. I’ve installed .NET 4.0, and the .NET tools from the Windows 7.1 SDK. … Read more
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Displaying build times in Visual Studio?
Our build server is taking too long to build one of our C++ projects. It uses Visual Studio 2008. Is there any way … Read more
How do you get the current project directory from C# code when creating a custom MSBuild task?
Instead of running an external program with its path hardcoded, I would like to get the current Project Dir. I’m calling an external … Read more
Path to MSBuild
How can I programatically get the path to MSBuild from a machine where my .exe is running? I can get the .NET version … Read more
How can I install the VS2017 version of msbuild on a build server without installing the IDE?
Historically, this has been done with the Microsoft Build Tools. But it seems that the Build Tools may not be available for versions … Read more
How to Publish Web with msbuild?
Visual Studio 2010 has a Publish command that allows you to publish your Web Application Project to a file system location. I’d like … Read more
MSBuild doesn’t copy references (DLL files) if using project dependencies in solution
I have four projects in my Visual Studio solution (everyone targeting .NET 3.5) – for my problem only these two are important: MyBaseProject … Read more
This project references NuGet package(s) that are missing on this computer
I have an ASP.NET MVC5 application that worked yesterday and now I am getting this error when I try to build: This project … Read more
Found conflicts between different versions of the same dependent assembly that could not be resolved
When I clean and then build my solution that has several projects, the output window reports that the build succeeded. However, when I … Read more
Resolving MSB3247 – Found conflicts between different versions of the same dependent assembly
A .NET 3.5 solution ended up with this warning when compiling with msbuild. Sometimes NDepend might help out but in this case it … Read more