msbuild-4.0

As all of us already know VS2010 has got an major upgrade of its build system, which is based on MSBuild. According to MS representatives (see comments in Visual Studio 2010 always rebuild project after hibernation/restart of computer ) MSBuild now injects itself into other tools (like C++ compilers, linkers, etc.) to find out the dependencies of a target. One of the drawbacks of such approach is that now your project may be forcedly rebuilt because of modifications in irrelevant files :( In my case it is C:\PROGRAMDATA\NVIDIA CORPORATION\DRS\NVDRSDB0.BIN , which is periodically changed by

I am stuck in a situation where I have an MSBuild script that needs to read the conditional compilation symbols set in project's build property. I have the following code in my MSBuild script file <PropertyGroup> <DefineConstants>$(DefineConstants);INTER</DefineConstants> </PropertyGroup> <Target Name="Compile"> <Message Text="$(DefineConstants)"/> <MSBuild Projects="CustomAssemblyInfo.csproj" Targets="Rebuild" Properties="DefineConstants=$(DefineConstants)" /> </Target> I was assuming that the $(DefineConstants); will contain the value of conditional compilation symbols that are set and I can

Let's say I carry out the following steps immediately after first installing and opening Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: File -> New -> Project -> Win32 Console App -> Finish . Go to the Property Manager pane -> Expand Debug | Win32 -> Right click Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.user -> Select Properties . Wildly change settings in a clueless manner, and generally act like a fool. Click Apply , save the project, and close Visual Studio. How do I restore the Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.user property sheet to its default, "factory" settings? I'm not sure if this is the official way, but it does work... The default

I have a C++ project (some sort of a console 32-bit appplication) developed in VS2010, which builds just fine on my PC (Windows 7 32-bit). My PC has Microsoft SDK 7.0A installed, which I think comes bundled with VS2010. I try to build the project on a build server, which doesn't have any Visual Studio installed - only Microsoft SDK 7.1 is present there. I try to build the project with the help of msbuild (this will eventually become the task for TeamCity's runner), and on the build server I get following errors (the detailed log is provided): Project "E:\win\core.sln" on node 1 (default

Rather than excluding a file from the referenced output of an assembly , I want to add one! I have a console application project (BuildTest1) that references a second class library project (ClassLibrary1). The Visual Studio solution looks like this: I have a class library project that has an app.config. I want this .config file copied to the referring project's output, just like the .dll and .pdb files are. The config file for the class library is copied to the class library output directory as 'ClassLibrary1.dll.config' I've tried adding this to the .exe project's .csproj file but it doesn't

From a brand new console application template in visual studio, I edited the .csproj to build another project like this: ... <Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" /> <Target Name="BeforeBuild"> <MSBuild Projects=".\other.mproj"/> </Target> ... Where other.mproj is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" DefaultTargets="Build"> <Target Name="Build"> <Message Text="kikou" /> </Target> </Project> After a while I discovered that modifying the content of other.mproj (for instance, by introducing errors or