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

If you have installed the .NET Core tools preview 3 or later, the dotnet CLI should be available on the %PATH% by default (even if you're not building a .NET Core project), so you could try dotnet msbuild. Ref https://github.com/dotnet/docs/blob/master/docs/core/preview3/tools/dotnet-msbuild.md