How to invoke MSBuild from PowerShell using & operator?

Question

I\'ve just tested this on PowerShell v1.0. Setup is as follows:

 Id CommandLine
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  1 $msbuild = \"C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v3.5\         


        

Answer 1

Ugh.

$collectionOfArgs = @("C:\some\project\or\other\src\Solution.sln", 
    "/target:Clean", "/target:Build")
& $msbuild $collectionOfArgs

This works. & takes a collection of arguments, so you must split up strings containing multiple arguments into a collection of string arguments.