TeamCity says to use “Build Parameters” instead of “/property:” in an MSBuild step. What does that mean?

Question

I have a TeamCity server setup to do my CI builds. I\'m building and testing a C# solution and running some custom MSBuild tasks. One of these tasks is printing a warning in

Answer 1

You have to add Build Parameters under Properties and environment variables in the configuration

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So in the command line parameters in the Build Step for MSBUild, remove any property that is specified as /p: and add each of those to the Build Parameters ( screenshot above) and give the values

Answer 2

It all happens behind the scenes! You just have to follow the right conventions. In your MSBuild script, you use the regular variable notation

$(DbPath)

And in TeamCity, you define a system or env variable

system.DbPath

TeamCity will automagically send all of its system/env variables to your MSBuild task, removing the 'system' or 'env' part. And you don't have to write /property:DbPath=system.DbPath in your TeamCity task.