I'm trying to execute a bat file after I have published an web application project in VS 2022. I added this line to my csproj file but it does not get executed. Why is the bat file not executed?
<Target Name="ExecuteBatAfterPublish" AfterTargets="AfterPublish">
<Exec Command="D:\postbuild.bat"/>
</Target>
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I am using MS build to publish my ClickOnce app, in Visual Studio 2017 developer command line to a remote ftp site.
How do I initiate the FTP file upload that starts in Visual Studio after build? This is my command line, which builds the project:
msbuild /target:publish -property:Configuration=Release /p:PlatformTarget=x86 "%USERPROFILE%\VSProjects\IIC\IIC.UI.vbproj"
There are 2 problems with command line Click Once deployment: (1) Auto Incrementing option from the publish property page of a project is not honored from the command line, and (2) the subject of the question, starting the FTP upload to the remote site.
Solution (with Visual Studio 2017 Developer Command Prompt v15.7.3)
Download community ms build tasks from here: https://github.com/loresoft/msbuildtasks
Unload the project and open with notepad++ or your editor of choice and import the community ms build tasks. Follow the instructions on their github page.
Add file ProjectName.version.txt with just one line with the version information of your project. For example:
1.2.78.1341
The numbers correspond to {Major}.{Minor}.{Build}.{ApplicationRevision}
Add the following target to the bottom of the project, which uses the Version and FileUpdate community tasks:
<Target Name="beforePublishCmd">
<Message Text="revision before: 3.0.0.$(ApplicationRevision)"/>
<Version VersionFile="ProjectName.version.txt" BuildType="Automatic" Major="3" Minor="0" Build="0" RevisionType="Increment">
<Output TaskParameter="Major" PropertyName="Major" />
<Output TaskParameter="Minor" PropertyName="Minor" />
<Output TaskParameter="Build" PropertyName="Build" />
<Output TaskParameter="Revision" PropertyName="ApplicationRevision" />
</Version>
<Message Text="revision after: 3.0.0.$(ApplicationRevision)"/>
<FileUpdate Files="ProjectName.vbproj"
Regex="<ApplicationRevision>(\d+)"
ReplacementText="<ApplicationRevision>$(ApplicationRevision)" />
</Target>
Call the above target from the command line BEFORE calling the publish target, like so:
msbuild /target:beforePublishCmd -property:Configuration=Release /p:PlatformTarget=x86 "%USERPROFILE%\VSProjects\ProjectName.vbproj"
Add an "afterPublish" target, which uses the FtpUploadDirectoryContent community task. This target is automatically called after the publish target finishes.
<Target Name="afterPublish">
<PropertyGroup>
<CurrentDate>$([System.DateTime]::Now.ToString(yyyy MMM dd HH:mm:ss))</CurrentDate>
</PropertyGroup>
<FtpUploadDirectoryContent
ServerHost="projectname.org"
Username="*****"
Password="*****"
LocalDirectory=".\bin\Release\app.publish"
RemoteDirectory="/"
Recursive="true"
/>
<Exec Command="C:\Progra~1\TortoiseSVN\bin\svn commit ..\ --non-interactive --message "Release 3.0.0.$(Revision) on $(CurrentDate): $(commitMessage)""/>
</Target>
Finally, call the publish target from the command line:
msbuild /target:publish -property:Configuration=Release /p:PlatformTarget=x86 "%USERPROFILE%\VSProjects\ProjectName.vbproj"
MSBuild ClickOnce app: Upload files after build
You can add a copy task into your project file to upload files after build:
To accomplish this, unload your project. Then at the very end of the </project>, just before the end-tag, place below scripts:
<ItemGroup>
<UploadFiles Include="ThePathOfYourUploadFiles\*.*"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="AfterBuild">
<Copy
SourceFiles="#(UploadFiles)"
DestinationFolder="PathWhereYouWantTouploadYourUploadFiles"
/>
</Target>
With this target, Visual Studio/MSBuild will upload the files after build.
Hope this helps.
I have a shared.{Environment}.json file that is added as linked files in several .Net core 2.1 projects. When project is build or published file gets copied to output directory, in case of release its fine but on debug it doesn't work as when project run it looks up for that file in project directory not in output directory.
Whats the proper way to solve this issue for both debug and publish?
For linked files, it will not exist under the project directory.
For a workaround, you could try to copy the file with task in csproj like below:
<ItemGroup>
<Content Include="..\MVCPro\shared.{Environment}.json">
<Link>shared.{Environment}.json</Link>
<CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
</Content>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="CopyLinkedContentFiles" BeforeTargets="Build">
<Copy SourceFiles="..\MVCPro\shared.{Environment}.json" DestinationFolder=".\" SkipUnchangedFiles="true" OverwriteReadOnlyFiles="true" />
</Target>
I'm trying to make Visual Studio do my entire build, currently I've got my extra build steps written in nant. But it's not ideal having to run ant separately.
I'm trying to run a jar file named plovr as part of my node application, although at the moment publish keeps failing on the line I've added to my build with exit code 1. This is the code I'm trying at the end of my build file within the <Project></Projet> tags.
<Target Name="Build">
<Exec Command="java -jar $(Plovr) build $(PlovrConfig)" />
</Target>
I've got these properties setup earlier in the file
<Plovr>dependencies\plovr.jar</Plovr>
<PlovrConfig>dependencies\plovr-config.js</PlovrConfig>
How can I get msbuild to run the plovr.jar?
If you put in the full path to java.exe.....the EXEC command should work.
It just does a command line call....at the end of the day.
<Target Name="Build">
<Exec Command=""C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\java.exe" -jar $(Plovr) build $(PlovrConfig)" />
</Target>
Also note the use of " .. to delimit a quote...
You can also put in some Message's to make sure you have what you think you have:
<Message Text="Plovr: $(Plovr)"/>
<Message Text="PlovrConfig: $(PlovrConfig)"/>
I'm trying to debug an msbuild script that is being run on our TFS build agent. I have no permissions to the build agent server.
Is there a way I can add some debugging to my msbuild script ("Message" or similar) to output a listing of all the files in a given directory?
Hope this helps to list all the files in the folder where the MSBuild files are there recursively:
<Target Name="Listing">
<ItemGroup>
<PackageFiles Include="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\**\*.*;"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Message Text="%(PackageFiles.FullPath)"/>
</Target>
I have a project with this in its MSBuild script:
<Target Name="AfterBuild">
<GenerateBootstrapper ApplicationFile="MyApp.msi" ApplicationName="My App" BootstrapperItems="#(BootstrapperFile)" OutputPath="$(OutputPath)" Culture="en-US" CopyComponents="true" ComponentsLocation="HomeSite" Path="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper" />
</Target>
If I run the project in visual studio, that gets run after the build and a setup.exe bootstrapper file is created in my bin/debug directory. However, if I build that same project (a WiX project, if that matters) under NAnt, everything gets built in the output directory that NAnt specifies, except the bootstrapper file. Nothing is being built in the project's bin/debug directory when I build it under NAnt, so the setup.exe file doesn't seem to be getting built, even there. I don't think that the AfterBuild step is even being run.
How can I generate this bootstrapper file under NAnt?
I had to specify the variable OutputPath in my NAnt script: