I have existing MSBuild code that I got help with but I need further help.
<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?-->
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" DefaultTargets="Demo">
<ItemGroup>
<Source1 Include="C:\temp\path01\**\*.txt" /> <!-- \%2A.txt -->
<Target1 Include="C:\temp\path02" />
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="Demo" BeforeTargets="Build;Rebuild">
<!--<Exec Command="xcopy.exe /C /S /F /R /Y /I /D #(Source1) #(Target1)" />-->
<Copy SourceFiles="#(Source1)" DestinationFiles="#(Source1->'#(Target1)\path02\%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')"
SkipUnchangedFiles="true" />
<Message Text="== END ===============================" />
</Target>
</Project>
But seems like #(Target1) is not working. It actually creates the directory called #(Target1) instead of using Item value. See the result below.
Creating directory "#(Target1)\path02".
Copying file from "C:\temp\path01\0001.txt" to "#(Target1)\path02\0001.txt".
Copying file from "C:\temp\path01\0002.txt" to "#(Target1)\path02\0002.txt".
Creating directory "#(Target1)\path02\sub".
Copying file from "C:\temp\path01\sub\sub-0003.txt" to "#(Target1)\path02\sub\sub-0003.txt".
Copying file from "C:\temp\path01\sub\sub-0004.txt" to "#(Target1)\path02\sub\sub-0004.txt".
== END ===============================
I would like to avoid hard coding the destination dir if possible.
TIA.
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So, I have used MSBuild but this was years ago.
I want to create a Release build for a solution where once built, it will copy all files into a variable set folder "ReleaseDrop" and zip up the contents.
Before zipping, I want to make sure it copies only the necessary files (i.e no pdb, no sln, no csproj, no .cs files (but .cshtml is allowed) or only certain directories and exclude other directories within a directory.
how can I do this?
This should be a start. It specifies a bunch of files to include in a release, copies them to a directory and zips them. For the zip part I used MSBuild Extension Pack since I have it installed anyway, but you could just as well use a prtable version of 7z or so and incoke it with the Exec task.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" >
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\ExtensionPack\4.0\MSBuild.ExtensionPack.tasks"/>
<!--default values for properties if not passed-->
<PropertyGroup>
<ProjectDir Condition="'$(ProjectDir) == ''">C:\Projects\MyProject</ProjectDir>
<ReleaseDrop Condition="'$(ReleaseDrop) == ''">c:\Projects\MyProject\ReleaseDrop</ReleaseDrop>
</PropertyGroup>
<!--build list of files to copy-->
<ItemGroup>
<SourceFiles Include="$(ProjectDir)\bin\*.exe" Exclude="$(ProjectDir)\bin\*test*.exe"/>
<SourceFiles Include="$(ProjectDir)\bin\*.cshtml" />
</ItemGroup>
<!--copy files-->
<Target Name="CopyFiles">
<MakeDir Directories="$(ReleaseDrop)" />
<Copy SourceFiles="#(SourceFiles)" DestinationFolder="$(ReleaseDrop)" />
</Target>
<!--after files are copied, list them then zip them-->
<Target Name="MakeRelease" DependsOnTargets="CopyFiles">
<ItemGroup>
<ZipFiles Include="$(ReleaseDrop)\*.*"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Zip ZipFileName="$(ReleaseDrop)\release.zip" Files="#(ZipFiles)" WorkingDirectory="$(ReleaseDrop)"/>
</Target>
</Project>
can be invoked like
msbuild <name of project file> /t:MakeRelease /p:ProjectDir=c:\projects
I'm using a msbuild file, TeamCity and Web Deploy to deploy my siteand everything works just fine, for the files included in the Visual Studio csproj file. In addition to these files I want to publish a couple of more files such as license files etc depending on environment.
This is my build file DeployToTest.proj:
<Project DefaultTargets="Deploy" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" ToolsVersion="4.0">
<ItemGroup>
<LicenseSourceFiles Include="License.config"/>
<RobotSourceFile Include="robots.txt" />
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="Build">
<Message Text="Starting build" />
<MSBuild Projects="..\..\WebApp.sln" Properties="Configuration=Test" ContinueOnError="false" />
<Message Text="##teamcity[buildNumber '$(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="$(BaseDir)\..\..\wwwroot"></Copy>
<Message Text="Started deploying to test" />
<Exec Command="C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe ..\..\wwwroot\WebApp.csproj /property:Configuration=Test /t:MsDeployPublish /p:MsDeployServiceUrl=99.99.99.99;DeployIisAppPath=MySite;username=user;password=pass;allowuntrustedcertificate=true" />
<Message Text="Finished deploying to test" />
</Target>
</Project>
Now this should fix the problem if there is indeed a problem with the relative file paths.
Solution was to change settings for the web project in Visual Studio. Under Package/Publish Web i set 'Items to deploy' to 'All files in this project folder'. I then added a filter to remove all .cs files and other unwanted files.
I have a really simple build script that looks like this:
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" ToolsVersion="4.0" DefaultTargets="Bundle">
<ItemGroup>
<BuildArtifacts Include="..\_buildartifacts" />
<Application Include="..\_application" />
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="Clean">
<RemoveDir Directories="#(BuildArtifacts)" />
<RemoveDir Directories="#(Application)" />
</Target>
<Target Name="Init" DependsOnTargets="Clean">
<MakeDir Directories="#(BuildArtifacts)" />
<MakeDir Directories="#(Application)" />
</Target>
<Target Name="Bundle" DependsOnTargets="Compile">
<Exec Command="xcopy.exe %(BuildArtifacts.FullPath) %(Application.FullPath) /e /EXCLUDE:$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\files_to_ignore_when_bundling.txt" WorkingDirectory="C:\Windows\" />
</Target>
The problem is the Bundle target, only the %(BuildArtifacts.FullPath) gets extracted, %(BuildArtifacts.FullPath) is ignored when the scripts executes.
The command looks like this when executing:
xcopy.exe C:\#Code\blaj_buildartifacts /e /EXCLUDE:C:\#Code\blaj\files_to_ignore_when_bundling.txt" exited with code 4
As you can see, the destination path is not there, if I hard code the paths or just the destination path it all works. Any suggestion on what I am doing wrong here?
Update
I managed to solve the problem, I removed the last part WorkingDirectory="C:\Windows\"
And changed the script into this:
<Exec Command="xcopy.exe #(BuildArtifacts) #(Application) /e /EXCLUDE:$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\files_to_ignore_when_bundling.txt" />
and now it's working :)
I managed to solve this. I've updated the question with the solution.
I removed the last part WorkingDirectory="C:\Windows\" And changed the script into this:
<Exec Command="xcopy.exe #(BuildArtifacts) #(Application) /e /EXCLUDE:$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\files_to_ignore_when_bundling.txt" />
and now it's working :)
You need to execute xcopy twice. You are trying to use task batching for two different item arrays in the same invocation, it doesn't work like that. Try this:
<Target Name="Bundle" DependsOnTargets="Compile">
<Exec Command="xcopy.exe %(BuildArtifacts.FullPath) /e /EXCLUDE:$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\files_to_ignore_when_bundling.txt" WorkingDirectory="C:\Windows\" />
<Exec Command="xcopy.exe %(Application.FullPath) /e /EXCLUDE:$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\files_to_ignore_when_bundling.txt" WorkingDirectory="C:\Windows\" />
</Target>
Here is my build script:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\MSBuildCommunityTasks\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Targets"/>
<PropertyGroup>
<!-- Path where the solution file is located (.sln) -->
<ProjectPath>W:\Demo</ProjectPath>
<!-- Location of compiled files -->
<DebugPath>W:\Demo\bin\Debug</DebugPath>
<ReleasePath>W:\Demo\bin\Release</ReleasePath>
<!-- Name of the solution to be compiled without the .sln extension --> <ProjectSolutionName>DemoTool</ProjectSolutionName>
<!-- Path where the nightly zip file will be copyd -->
<NightlyBuildPath>W:\Nightly_Builds\Demo</NightlyBuildPath>
<!-- Name of the nighly zip file (YYYYMMDD_NightlyZipName.zip, date added automatically) -->
<NightlyZipName>Demo</NightlyZipName>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<!-- All files and folders from ./bin/Debug or ./bin/Release what will be added to the nightly zip -->
<DebugApplicationFiles Include="$(DebugPath)\**\*.*" Exclude="$(DebugPath)\*vshost.exe*" />
<ReleaseApplicationFiles Include="$(ReleasePath)\**\*.*" Exclude="$(ReleasePath)\*vshost.exe*" />
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="DebugBuild">
<Message Text="Building $(ProjectSolutionName) Debug Build" />
<MSBuild Projects="$(ProjectPath)\$(ProjectSolutionName).sln" Targets="Clean" Properties="Configuration=Debug"/>
<MSBuild Projects="$(ProjectPath)\$(ProjectSolutionName).sln" Targets="Build" Properties="Configuration=Debug"/>
<Message Text="$(ProjectSolutionName) Debug Build Complete!" />
<CallTarget Targets="CreateNightlyZip" />
</Target>
<Target Name="CreateNightlyZip">
<PropertyGroup>
<StringDate>$([System.DateTime]::Now.ToString('yyyyMMdd'))</StringDate>
</PropertyGroup>
<MakeDir Directories="$(NightlyBuildPath)"/>
<Zip Files="#(DebugApplicationFiles)"
WorkingDirectory="$(DebugPath)"
ZipFileName="$(NightlyBuildPath)\$(StringDate)_$(NightlyZipName).zip"
ZipLevel="9" />
</Target>
</Project>
My script works perfectly, only there is one strange problem. When i build a project first time and there is no \bin\Debug folder and its created during the build, but the ZIP file still comes empty. Running the build script second time when the \bin\Debug folder is now in place with builded files then the file are added to the ZIP.
What could be the problem that running script first time the ZIP file is empty?
The problem is in the DebugApplicationFiles item collection. It is created before the build is invoked. Move the DebugApplicationFiles into CreateNightlyZip target. Update your script this way:
<Target Name="CreateNightlyZip">
<PropertyGroup>
<StringDate>$([System.DateTime]::Now.ToString('yyyyMMdd'))</StringDate>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<DebugApplicationFiles Include="$(DebugPath)\**\*.*" Exclude="$(DebugPath)\*vshost.exe*" />
</ItemGroup>
<MakeDir Directories="$(NightlyBuildPath)"/>
<Zip Files="#(DebugApplicationFiles)"
WorkingDirectory="$(DebugPath)"
ZipFileName="$(NightlyBuildPath)\$(StringDate)_$(NightlyZipName).zip"
ZipLevel="9" />
</Target>
If powershell 5.0 or greater is available, you could use powershell command directly.
<Target Name="Zip" BeforeTargets="AfterBuild">
<ItemGroup>
<ZipFiles Include="$(OutDir)release\file1.exe" />
<ZipFiles Include="$(OutDir)release\file2.exe" />
</ItemGroup>
<Exec Command="PowerShell -command Compress-Archive #(ZipFiles, ',') $(OutDir)release\zippedfiles.zip" />
</Target>
Should you wish to zip a whole folder for 'xcopy deploy', since MSBuild 15.8 there is a simple way - the ZipDirectory build task.
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<Target Name="ZipOutputPath" AfterTargets="Build">
<ZipDirectory
SourceDirectory="$(OutputPath)"
DestinationFile="$(OutputPath)\..\$(AssemblyName).zip"
Overwrite=="true" />
</Target>
</Project>
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/msbuild/zipdirectory-task?view=vs-2019
I'm trying to write an MsBuild script to zip some files up. I need to select all of the read-only files recursively from a folder into an ItemGroup to add to the zip.
I'm using the community tasks Zip task, but am struggling with selecting files based on their attributes.
Is there anything around to do this out of the box, or do I need to write a custom task?
Thanks for you help.
You can use Property Functions (added to msbuild 4) to figure out if a file is read-only like so:
<ItemGroup>
<MyFiles Include="Testing\*.*" >
<ReadOnly Condition='1 == $([MSBuild]::BitwiseAnd(1, $([System.IO.File]::GetAttributes("%(Identity)"))))'>True</ReadOnly>
</MyFiles>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="Run" Outputs="%(MyFiles.Identity)">
<Message Text="%(MyFiles.Identity)" Condition="%(MyFiles.ReadOnly) != True"/>
<Message Text="%(MyFiles.Identity) ReadOnly" Condition="%(MyFiles.ReadOnly) == True" />
</Target>
Have you looked at the community build tasks site?
It has a zip task and an attribute change task - they should get you most of they way there.
This seems to do the job with a bit of dirty command line usage.
<Exec Command="dir .\RelPath\ToFolder\ToSearchIn /S /AR /B > readonlyfiles.temp.txt"/>
<ReadLinesFromFile File="readonlyfiles.temp.txt">
<Output TaskParameter="Lines" ItemName="ReadOnlyFiles"/>
</ReadLinesFromFile>
<Delete Files="readonlyfiles.temp.txt"/>
That gives absolute paths to the files.
To get relative paths, try something like this:
<Exec Command="dir .\RelPath\ToFolder\ToSearchIn /S /AR /B > readonlyfiles.temp.txt"/>
<FileUpdate Files="readonlyfiles.temp.txt"
Multiline="True"
Regex="^.*\\RelPath\\ToFolder\\ToSearchIn"
ReplacementText="RelPath\ToFolder\ToSearchIn"
/>
<ReadLinesFromFile File="readonlyfiles.temp.txt">
<Output TaskParameter="Lines" ItemName="ReadOnlyZipFiles"/>
</ReadLinesFromFile>
<Delete Files="readonlyfiles.temp.txt"/>