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. On .NET 2.0 and 3.5, that just worked. With .NET 4, when I run the “Windows SDK 7.1 Command Prompt” from the Start menu, it complains about The x86 compilers are not … Read more
Our build server is taking too long to build one of our C++ projects. It uses Visual Studio 2008. Is there any way to get devenv.com to log the time taken to build each project in the solution, so that I know where to focus my efforts? Improved hardware is not an option in this … Read more
Instead of running an external program with its path hardcoded, I would like to get the current Project Dir. I’m calling an external program using a process in the custom task. How would I do that? AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory just gives me the location of VS 2008. 26 Answers 26
How can I programatically get the path to MSBuild from a machine where my .exe is running? I can get the .NET version from the Environment but is there a way of getting the correct folder for a .NET version? 22 Answers 22
Historically, this has been done with the Microsoft Build Tools. But it seems that the Build Tools may not be available for versions after 2015. The replacement appears to be the Visual Studio build tools, which doesn’t seem to have a real homepage yet. I downloaded the VS2017 Professional installer, and went to the Individual … Read more
Visual Studio 2010 has a Publish command that allows you to publish your Web Application Project to a file system location. I’d like to do this on my TeamCity build server, so I need to do it with the solution runner or msbuild. I tried using the Publish target, but I think that might be … Read more
I have four projects in my Visual Studio solution (everyone targeting .NET 3.5) – for my problem only these two are important: MyBaseProject <- this class library references a third-party DLL file (elmah.dll) MyWebProject1 <- this web application project has a reference to MyBaseProject I added the elmah.dll reference to MyBaseProject in Visual studio 2008 … Read more
I have an ASP.NET MVC5 application that worked yesterday and now I am getting this error when I try to build: This project references NuGet package(s) that are missing on this computer. I have the two options checked that allow nuget to automatically download and install missing packages checked / turned ON. I have also … Read more
When I clean and then build my solution that has several projects, the output window reports that the build succeeded. However, when I view the Error List Window, it shows me this warning: Found conflicts between different versions of the same dependent assembly that could not be resolved. These reference conflicts are listed in the … Read more
A .NET 3.5 solution ended up with this warning when compiling with msbuild. Sometimes NDepend might help out but in this case it didn’t give any further details. Like Bob I ended up having to resort to opening each assembly in ILDASM until I found the one that was referencing an older version of the … Read more
