Is there a way in MSBuild to compile all solutions in folders, and sub-folders, and sub... under a specified parent?
We have a bunch of sample programs we ship with our library. I want to add to the build process that we know they all compile.
You can create own targets for restore and build operations. For example:
<Project ToolsVersion="15.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" InitialTargets="EntryRestore" DefaultTargets="EntryMSBuild">
<ItemGroup>
<SolutionFile Include="./**/*.sln"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="EntryRestore">
<Message Text="-----Entry-----" Importance="high"/>
<Message Text=" Restore " Importance="high"/>
<Message Text="-----Entry-----" Importance="high"/>
<MSBuild Projects="%(SolutionFile.Identity)" Targets="restore"/>
</Target>
<Target Name="EntryMSBuild">
<Message Text="-----Entry-----" Importance="high" />
<Message Text=" Build " Importance="high" />
<Message Text="-----Entry-----" Importance="high" />
<MSBuild Projects="%(SolutionFile.Identity)" Targets="build" />
</Target>
</Project>
Item SolutionFile will contains paths for all .sln files that located in current directory and its subdirectories. You also may define path in CLI and perform searching relative it.
<ItemGroup>
<SolutionFile Include="$(MyDir)/**/*.sln"/>
</ItemGroup>
MSBuild task launches MSBuild for performing specified targets. In our cas it are restore and build. It task used 'batching' that allow iterate over items by metadata.
&"D:\Visual Studio\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\msbuild.exe" .\Make.targets
MSBuild targets | Item element | Item metadata in task batching | MSBuild task
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I'm using a msbuild file, TeamCity and Web Deploy to deploy my siteand everything works just fine, for the files included in the Visual Studio csproj file. In addition to these files I want to publish a couple of more files such as license files etc depending on environment.
This is my build file DeployToTest.proj:
<Project DefaultTargets="Deploy" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" ToolsVersion="4.0">
<ItemGroup>
<LicenseSourceFiles Include="License.config"/>
<RobotSourceFile Include="robots.txt" />
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="Build">
<Message Text="Starting build" />
<MSBuild Projects="..\..\WebApp.sln" Properties="Configuration=Test" ContinueOnError="false" />
<Message Text="##teamcity[buildNumber '$(FullVersion)']"/>
<Message Text="Build successful" />
</Target>
<Target Name="Deploy" DependsOnTargets="Build">
<Copy SourceFiles="#(LicenseSourceFiles)" DestinationFolder="..\..\wwroot"></Copy>
<Copy SourceFiles="#(RobotSourceFile)" DestinationFolder="..\..\wwwroot"></Copy>
<Message Text="Started deploying to test" />
<Exec Command="C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe ..\..\wwwroot\WebApp.csproj /property:Configuration=Test /t:MsDeployPublish /p:MsDeployServiceUrl=99.99.99.99;DeployIisAppPath=MySite;username=user;password=pass;allowuntrustedcertificate=true" />
<Message Text="Finished deploying to test" />
</Target>
</Project>
As you can see I tried to copy the license.config and robots.txt without any luck.
This .proj file is selected as the 'Build file path' in TeamCity.
Any suggestions on how I can accomplish this?
To solve this problem it may be worth executing the build script with the verbosity set to the 'detailed' or 'diagnostic' level. That should tell you exactly why the copy step fails.
However one of the most likely problems could be the fact that the script is using relative file paths, which depend on the working directory being set to the correct value. For build scripts I prefer use absolute paths to prevent any file path problems.
To get the absolute path you can use the MSBuildProjectDirectory property. The value of this property points to the path of the directory containing the currently executing MsBuild script. With that you can change your MsBuild script like this:
<Project DefaultTargets="Deploy" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" ToolsVersion="4.0">
<PropertyGroup>
<BaseDir>$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)</BaseDir>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<LicenseSourceFiles Include="$(BaseDir)\License.config"/>
<RobotSourceFile Include="$(BaseDir)\robots.txt" />
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="Build">
<Message Text="Starting build" />
<MSBuild Projects="$(BaseDir)\..\..\WebApp.sln" Properties="Configuration=Test" ContinueOnError="false" />
<Message Text="##teamcity[buildNumber '$(FullVersion)']"/>
<Message Text="Build successful" />
</Target>
<Target Name="Deploy" DependsOnTargets="Build">
<Copy SourceFiles="#(LicenseSourceFiles)" DestinationFolder="$(BaseDir)\..\..\wwroot"></Copy>
<Copy SourceFiles="#(RobotSourceFile)" DestinationFolder="$(BaseDir)\..\..\wwwroot"></Copy>
<Message Text="Started deploying to test" />
<Exec Command="C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe ..\..\wwwroot\WebApp.csproj /property:Configuration=Test /t:MsDeployPublish /p:MsDeployServiceUrl=99.99.99.99;DeployIisAppPath=MySite;username=user;password=pass;allowuntrustedcertificate=true" />
<Message Text="Finished deploying to test" />
</Target>
</Project>
Now this should fix the problem if there is indeed a problem with the relative file paths.
Solution was to change settings for the web project in Visual Studio. Under Package/Publish Web i set 'Items to deploy' to 'All files in this project folder'. I then added a filter to remove all .cs files and other unwanted files.
I'm trying to get some pre-build steps to work in a C++ project in Visual Studio 2012 but they do not get invoked (while I'm pretty sure the same techniques were OK in Visual Studio 2010). Command line builds behave exactly the same.
This is the end of the project file; the file was generated using Visual Studio and then I just added the last couple of lines:
<Import Project="$(VCTargetsPath)\Microsoft.Cpp.targets" />
<Target Name="BeforeBuild">
<Message Text="### BeforeBuild ###" />
</Target>
<Target Name="BeforeCompile">
<Message Text="### BeforeCompile ###" />
</Target>
<Target Name="AfterBuild">
<Message Text="### AfterBuild ###" />
</Target>
and here's the output:
Project "d:\temp\temp.vcxproj" on node 1 (default targets).
InitializeBuildStatus:
Creating "Debug\temp.unsuccessfulbuild" because "AlwaysCreate" was specified.
AfterBuild:
AfterBuild
FinalizeBuildStatus:
Deleting file "Debug\temp.unsuccessfulbuild".
Touching "Debug\temp.lastbuildstate".
So only AfterBuild is considered and the others are ignored.
Looking into this I found this PropertyGroup in Microsoft.BuildSteps.targets:
<BuildDependsOn>
_PrepareForBuild;
$(BuildSteps);
AfterBuild;
FinalizeBuildStatus;
</BuildDependsOn>
Shouldn't this also have BeforeBuild and the BuildEvent targets? Or is something wrong with my MSBuild install causing it to use this BuildSteps.targets file instead of something else?
Solution
As Alexey points out, using Before/AfterTarget provides a usable workaround. You just have to take care of which targets to use, but this is easy by looking at the BuildSteps file. This seems to work fine for now:
<Target Name="BeforeBuild" BeforeTargets="PrepareForBuild">
<Message Text="### BeforeBuild ###" />
</Target>
<Target Name="BeforeCompile" BeforeTargets="BuildCompile">
<Message Text="### BeforeCompile ###" />
</Target>
<Target Name="AfterBuild" AfterTargets="Build">
<Message Text="### AfterBuild ###" />
</Target>
I have same msbuild targets as you described, so I think your msbuild installation is fine.
Looks like they decide to make some cleanup to targets and dependencies ( not sure if this issue related to VS version, VS just using same targets, provided by msbuild). BeforeBuild and other targets still exists in Microsoft.common.targets. I suppose it just reserved for .NET projects (I never played with C++ ones, so I don't know, how to build a pipeline there).
Anyway whether it works or not on previous versions, your problem can be solved much easier - just use new attributes BeforeTargets\AfterTargets for MSBuild 4.0 and hook your targets directly on whatever you want:
<Import Project="$(VCTargetsPath)\Microsoft.Cpp.targets" />
<Target Name="BeforeBuild" BeforeTargets="Build">
<Message Text="### BeforeBuild ###" Importance="high" />
</Target>
<Target Name="BeforeCompile" BeforeTargets="Compile">
<Message Text="### BeforeCompile ###" Importance="high" />
</Target>
<Target Name="AfterBuild" AfterTargets="Build">
<Message Text="### AfterBuild ###" Importance="high" />
</Target>
I've got the following xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" DefaultTargets="DeployPrototype" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup>
<dotCover>..\..\..\plugins\dotCover\bin\dotCover.exe</dotCover>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<SourceFiles Include="..\Prototype\Site\Site\Bin\TestServer\Default.html;..\Prototype\Site\Site\Bin\TestServer\Site.xap"/>
<DestinationFolder Include="C:\inetpub\wwwroot\ProjectName\Prototype"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="Build">
<MSBuild Projects="../ProjectName.Web.sln" Properties="Configuration=testserver" />
<Message Text="Building ProjectName solution" Importance="high" />
</Target>
<Target Name="TeamCity" DependsOnTargets="Build">
<Message Text="Before executing MSpec command" Importance="low" />
<Exec Command="..\packages\Machine.Specifications.0.4.10.0\tools\mspec-clr4.exe ..\Hosts\ProjectName.Hosts.Web.Specs\bin\ProjectName.Hosts.Web.Specs.dll --teamcity" />
<Message Text="Ran MSpec" Importance="low" />
<Exec Command="$(dotCover) c TestServerBuildAndRunTestsOnly_DotCover.xml" />
<Message Text="##teamcity[importData type='dotNetCoverage' tool='dotcover' path='build\coverage.xml']" Importance="high" />
</Target>
<Target Name="DeployPrototype" DependsOnTargets="TeamCity">
<Message Text="Before executing copy, source files are: #(MySourceFiles) and destination folder is: #(DestinationFolder)" Importance="low" />
<Copy
SourceFiles="#(MySourceFiles)"
DestinationFolder="#(DestinationFolder)"
/>
<Message Text="Atter executing copy" Importance="low" />
</Target>
</Project>
Everything in this script works apart from the copying of the files. The messages I've put put in the copying section don't appear in the full log in TeamCity. In the configuration settings of the latter, I've put "DeployPrototype" as my target.
Why is the copying operation not happening?
For a given problem involving MSBuild not working under TeamCity, the answer almost always involves adding /v:d (Every step carried out and information about skipped steps) or /v:diag (Detailed plus dumps of ItemGroups etc. for diagnostic purposes) to the MSBuild args and the TeamCity-managed build output will have the answer.
After looking around I can't find a simple answer to this problem.
I am trying to create an MSBuild file to allow me to easily use SpecFlow and NUnit within Visual Studio 2010 express.
The file below is not complete this is just a proof of concept and it needs to be made more generic.
<Project DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup>
<BuildDependsOn>
BuildSolution;
SpecFlow;
BuildProject;
NUnit;
</BuildDependsOn>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup>
<Solution>C:\Users\Craig\Documents\My Dropbox\Cells\Cells.sln</Solution>
<CSProject>C:\Users\Craig\Documents\My Dropbox\Cells\Configuration\Configuration.csproj</CSProject>
<DLL>C:\Users\Craig\Documents\My Dropbox\Cells\Configuration\bin\Debug\Configuration.dll</DLL>
<CSFile>C:\Users\Craig\Documents\My Dropbox\Cells\Configuration\SpecFlowFeature1.feature.cs</CSFile>
</PropertyGroup>
<Target Name="Build" DependsOnTargets="$(BuildDependsOn)">
<Message Text="Build Started" Importance="high" />
<Message Text="Build Ended" Importance="high" />
</Target>
<Target Name="BuildSolution">
<Message Text="BuildSolution Started" Importance="high" />
<MSBuild Projects="$(Solution)" Properties="Configuration=Debug" />
<Message Text="BuildSolution Ended" Importance="high" />
</Target>
<Target Name="SpecFlow">
<Message Text="SpecFlow Started" Importance="high" />
<Exec Command='SpecFlow generateall "$(CSProject)"' />
<Message Text="SpecFlow Ended" Importance="high" />
</Target>
<Target Name="BuildProject">
<Message Text="BuildProject Started" Importance="high" />
<MSBuild Projects="$(CSProject)" Properties="Configuration=Debug" />
<Message Text="BuildProject Ended" Importance="high" />
</Target>
<Target Name="NUnit">
<Message Text="NUnit Started" Importance="high" />
<Exec Command='NUnit /run "$(DLL)"' />
<Message Text="NUnit Ended" Importance="high" />
</Target>
</Project>
The SpecFlow Task looks in the .csproj file and creates a SpecFlowFeature1.feature.cs.
I need to include this file when building the .csproj so that NUnit can use it.
I know I could modify (either directly or on a copy) the .csproj file to include the generated file but I'd prefer to avoid this.
My question is: Is there a way to use the MSBuild Task to build the project file and tell it to include an additional file to include in the build?
Thank you.
I found no way of doing it without editing the project file.
So I made an MSBuild file to:
Copy the project files
Run the copies through SpecFlow
Add the new .cs files to the copied projects
Compile the projects
Debug Run each of the compiled DLLs through NUnit
Clean up - Delete the copied projects
I've blogged about how to use it here:
http://learntdd.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/using-specflow-and-nunit-on-visual-studio-2010-express/
(It's version 1, I'd like to improve the script)
I couldn't think of any way to achieve without any modification to the .csproj file.
The approach I'd suggest would look like this.
In your .csproj you Import a container target file
...
<Import Project="SpecFlow.target" />
<Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
...
just above the CSharp.targets.
Specflow.targets would look like this
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<ItemGroup>
<Compile Include="#(Compile)" />
</ItemGroup>
</Project>
so it doesn't harm while building the project from VS.
You could then use the Output of your SpecFlow Exec and add it to the SpecFlow.targets file
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<ItemGroup>
<Compile Include="#(Compile)" />
<Compile Include="SpecFlowFeature1.feature.cs" />
</ItemGroup>
</Project>
...
and clean SpecFlow.targets after building your .csproj.
I created a build.proj file which consists of a task to copy files that will be generated after the build is complete. The problem is that these files are not copied the first time round and I have to run msbuild again on the build.proj so that the files can be copied. Please can anyone tell me whats wrong with the following build.proj file:
<Configuration Condition="'$(Configuration)' == ''">Debug</Configuration>
<SourcePath Condition="'$(SourcePath)' == ''">$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)</SourcePath>
<BuildDir>$(SourcePath)\build</BuildDir>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<Projects
Include="$(SourcePath)\src\myApp\application.csproj">
</Projects>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="Build">
<Message text = "Building project" />
<MSBuild
Projects="#(Projects)"
Properties="Configuration=$(Configuration)" />
</Target>
<ItemGroup>
<OutputFiles Include ="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\**\**\bin\Debug\*.*"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="CopyToBuildFolder">
<Message text = "Copying build items" />
<Copy SourceFiles="#(OutputFiles)" DestinationFolder="$(BuildDir)"/>
</Target>
<Target Name="All"
DependsOnTargets="Build; CopyToBuildFolder"/>
</Project>
The itemgroups are evaluated when the script is parsed. At that time your files aren't there yet. To be able to find the files you'll have to fill the itemgroup from within a target.
<!-- SQL Scripts which are needed for deployment -->
<Target Name="BeforeCopySqlScripts">
<CreateItem Include="$(SolutionRoot)\04\**\Databases\**\*.sql">
<Output ItemName="CopySqlScript" TaskParameter="Include"/>
</CreateItem>
</Target>
This example creates the ItemGroup named "CopySqlScript" using the expression in the Include attribute.
Edit:
Now I can read your script: add the CreateItem tag within your CopyToBuildFolder target