“AnyCPU” vs “Any CPU” in TFS 2010

Question

I spent a great many hours trying to work out why my project builds with the default (blank) configuration on TFS2010 but tells me there\'s no output path if I set it to any

Answer 1

This seems to be a known bug in VS2010.
See http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/503935/msbuild-inconsistent-platform-for-any-cpu-between-solution-and-project for more details.

What I've found :

All project files in a solution have the platform set to "AnyCPU" even though you select "Any CPU" in the configuration window. So if you build this solution in VS, everything works fine. When you try to build using the TFS "Any CPU" platform, solutions work fine, but projects have to be set (on the msbuild task) to use /p:AnyCPU.