How do I call Visual Studio 2017 RC's version of MSBuild from a BAT file?

Question

Earlier versions of MSBuild could be found here: %programfiles(x86)%\\msbuild\\\\bin\\msbuild.exe.

But for Visual Studio 2017RC the path

Answer 1

Now that VS 2017 has been released, thought it might be useful to add my 2 cents:

Creating a batch file:

Open Notepad

Copy the following and paste into notepad, replacing the solution you want to build with [My Solution Name Here]:

@echo off

:variables
SET msBuildLocation="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\msbuild.exe"
SET solutionDirectory=[My Solution Location Here]
SET batchFileLocation=[BatchFileLocation Here]

cd %solutionDirectory%

echo Building MS files for [My Solution Name Here].

call %msBuildLocation% [My Solution Name].sln /p:Configuration=Debug /m:4 /v:M /fl /flp:LogFile=msbuild.log;Verbosity=Normal /nr:false  /consoleloggerparameters:Summary;ShowTimestamp;ShowEventId;PerformanceSummary
echo -
echo --------Done building [My solution name here].--------------
echo -

cd %batchFileLocation%

Save your batch file as whatever you want with the .bat extension. Be sure to select all files instead of .txt or else it won't work. Call the batch file by issuing the cd command where you have it saved at, and it should work. Or, just double-click. Done.

Please note that my version of visual studio is community; you'll need to replace the path with the appropriate version.