MSBuild in TeamCity of Visual Studio 2012 solution

Question

I have a VS 2012 web project /sln that I am trying to build in TeamCity. it uses .NET 4.5 which is installed on TeamCity.

The TeamCity server has VS 2010 in

Answer 1

Alternatively, you can copy the build targets you need from the c:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild to a subdirectory of your project (for example .\Build) making sure to preserve structure and add the following to your csproj:

  ..\Build\

For example, if my project root is C:\Dev\MyProjSln\MyProj

• Create Folder C:\Dev\MyProjSln\Build\Microsoft\VisualStudio\version\WebApplications\
• Copy Contents of C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\version>\WebApplications\ to created folder
• Add MSBuildExtensionsPath32 element to Property Group under Project node in csproj
• Profit!

Personally, I prefer this method of tracking build target dependencies, as it prevents build server from being dependent on having undocumented folder structure requirements, and gets your dependencies into source control