specify project file of a solution using msbuild

Question

I want the commandline for building a particular project of a solution using msbuild like we do with devenv.com.In devenv.com we can specify a project of a solution using fo

Answer 1

In order to do this, you need to know what the project's target-name is, not necessarily the project name.

One way to find this out is to use MSBuild against your SLN with intended parameters after setting a special environment variable called MSBuildEmitSolution to the value of 1.

set MSBuildEmitSolution=1
msbuild my_stuff.sln /t:rebuild /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64

I recently had to do this due to a very specific name for a target in nested directories. So from my generated file, my_stuff.sln.metaproj I found this line:

That means the command-line to use ends up being,

msbuild my_stuff.sln /t:Utils\Firewall\FirewallUtils:Rebuild /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64