I am very new to TeamCity. I found that some xml does the trick like
<Gallio IgnoreFailures="true" ...
but I do not know wher to put this. How to invoke this. What steps to add in TeamCity. I would be greateful for any tutorial.
1 To your solution add a library project.
2 Edit a project (adding section below) and commit.
<!-- put this in csproj almost at the end in target section -->
<UsingTask AssemblyFile="Gallio directory - wherever it is insalled\bin\Gallio.MSBuildTasks.dll" TaskName="Gallio" />
<ItemGroup>
<TestAssemblies Include="Path to your test project dll (ex ..\testProjName\bin\Debug\testProjName.dll" />
<!-- put as many TestAssemblies as you want -->
</ItemGroup>
<!-- name of the target is important to rememver. You will use it in Team City Configuration -->
<Target Name="RunTests">
<Gallio Files="#(TestAssemblies)" IgnoreFailures="false" ReportTypes="html" ShowReports="true">
<!-- This tells MSBuild to store the output value of the task's ExitCode property
into the project's ExitCode property -->
<Output TaskParameter="ExitCode" PropertyName="ExitCode" />
</Gallio>
<Error Text="Tests execution failed" Condition="'$(ExitCode)' != 0" />
</Target>
3 Add an MSBuild step to build configuration.
a) Runner Type: MSBuild
b) Build File Path: Relative path to the test project.
c) Targets: In example above target name is "RunTests"
d) Fill all other fields accordingly.
e) Save step
You should be already able to run and test your projects. If you believe that there is some other step that could be added here just edit my answer.
I have been looking for an answer for some time and found it partially on several sites, but nowhere as a whole. For example: other similar answer was not only partial, but had parameters that did not work in MsBuild 3.2.
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I'm using MSBuild SDK style projects with VS 2019. I'm trying to run a custom file generation tool which depends on the output of the build of the current project. The files should be treated as if it was regular content for which CopyToOutputDirectory is set. In dependent projects I expect the files to be part of the output directory as well. The solution I now have works, but not from clean builds, which is obviously not acceptable.
I currently have this in the project file:
<Target Name="Generation" AfterTargets="AfterBuild">
<Exec Command="GeneratedFiles" />
<ItemGroup>
<Content Include="$(TargetDir)\GeneratedFiles.*.xml">
<TargetPath>GeneratedFiles\%(Filename)%(Extension)</TargetPath>
<CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
</Content>
</ItemGroup>
</Target>
This works, but only for non-clean builds.
The reason the Generation target doesn't work is because the logic that performs the copies, based on the presence and value of the CopyToOutputDirectory metadata, runs as part of the 'CoreBuild'. The Generation target has AfterTargets="AfterBuild". It runs after the build (and the copying) has already been completed.
The Generation target doesn't work for the first build and it doesn't work for subsequent incremental builds either.
The question description says that the files are copied for an incremental build. While it may be true that the files are copied, they can't be getting copied because of the Generation target. Without seeing the complete project file, I assume there is another place in the project where the CopyToOutputDirectory metadata is being set for the files.
To have the Generation target run after compilation and before files are copied, the following can be used:
<Target Name="Generation" AfterTargets="AfterCompile" BeforeTargets="GetCopyFilesToOutputDirectoryItems">
The GetCopyFilesToOutputDirectoryItems is publicly documented and it runs before another publicly documented target named CopyFilesToOutputDirectory. The CopyFilesToOutputDirectory is defined with a DependsOnTargets attribute which runs a set of targets that perform the actually copying. This means that the file copies are completed before the CopyFilesToOutputDirectory target is completed.
To ensure the correct order, BeforeTargets="GetCopyFilesToOutputDirectoryItems" is used and not BeforeTargets="CopyFilesToOutputDirectory".
If the scenario were different and <Exec Command="GeneratedFiles" /> didn't depend on the compilation step, i.e. the GeneratedFiles command didn't use the assembly being created by the project, then the Generation target could occur even earlier, e.g.
<Target Name="Generation" BeforeTargets="BeforeBuild">
Update - Execute a Target if ProjectReference has a specific Project
This update is a response to discussion in the comments.
Let's say we have a FooApp project and a BarLib project and FooApp depends on BarLib and needs to copy arbitrary files from the BarLib project directory.
FooApp has a ProjectReference to BarLib, e.g.
<ItemGroup>
<ProjectReference Include="..\BarLib\BarLib.csproj" />
</ItemGroup>
ProjectReference is an ItemGroup and we can check if it includes BarLib.
<Target Name="CopyFilesFromBar" BeforeTargets="BeforeBuild">
<PropertyGroup>
<!-- The name of the project to look for -->
<BarProjectName>BarLib</BarProjectName>
<!-- Use batching to check the ItemGroup -->
<!-- Save the project's directory because we will need it later -->
<BarProjectDirectory Condition="'%(ProjectReference.Filename)' == '$(BarProjectName)'">%(ProjectReference.Directory)</BarProjectDirectory>
<!-- Set up a boolean that indicates if the project was found or not -->
<HasProjectRefToBar>false</HasProjectRefToBar>
<HasProjectRefToBar Condition="$(FooProjectDirectory) != ''">true</HasProjectRefToBar>
</PropertyGroup>
<!-- Copy if the project was found in ProjectReference -->
<Copy SourceFiles="$(TargetDir)$(BarProjectDirectory)\bin\GeneratedFiles\*.*" DestinationFolder="$(OutputPath)GeneratedFiles" Condition="$(HasProjectRefToBar)" />
</Target>
This target could be defined once in a Directory.Build.targets file and shared across a solution.
If the generated files (in BarLib in the example scenario) don't change based on Configuration and Platform, consider using an output path location that doesn't change as in the example - 'bin\GeneratedFiles'. This makes it much easier for consuming projects. Otherwise keep all the projects in sync with regards to using the same Configuration and Platform values and the same $(OutputPath).
Assuming the latest version of MSBuild, let's say I have 3 projects ProjA, ProjB and ProjC. I have a custom target in A and B that copy the individual outputs (bin items) into a custom path $(CustomOutputPath) - this all works fine individually. ProjC also has a custom target but in addition to copying its files to $(CustomOutputPath), it also cleans up the output path first, then chains ProjA and ProjB so that essentially all 3 projects have their files in the custom output path.
Let's assume I cannot change this requirement.
My ProjC target looks something like this:
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<!-- Contains groups and properties only like
CustomOutputPath and BuildProjects -->
<Import Project="SharedGroups.msbuild"/>
<Target Name="AfterBuild">
<!-- Removing old output -->
<RemoveDir Directories="$(CustomOutputPath)" />
<ItemGroup>
<!-- Arbitrary contents of this project -->
<FilesToCopy Include="**\*.*" />
</ItemGroup>
<!-- this works fine -->
<Copy SourceFiles="#(FilesToCopy)"
DestinationFolder="$(CustomOutputPath)"
OverwriteReadOnlyFiles="true" />
<!-- Once cleanup and copy is completed, I want to run all the other
projects builds which contain similar but specific copy tasks as
above, with no clean up. BuildProjects is an ItemGroup of all
the projects I want to build -->
<MSBuild Projects="#(BuildProjects)"
Properties="Configuration=$(Configuration); BuildProjectReferences=true"/>
</Target>
</Project>
The problem I'm having is that one of the projects I am trying to build in the last step is failing because it references another project in the solution, which is not being built as part of the BuildProjectReferences=true directive, so it can't find the DLL. If I build this dependency individually then the MSBuild task will work, but I don't want to have to build this project independently.
Why is my referenced project not being built and is there a better way to do this with MSBuild?
Note: I am open to other solutions - I have tried to make ProjA and ProjB references of ProjC (hence not needing the MSBuild task at the bottom of ProjC target) but then the cleanup step in C happens AFTER A and B copy their output out so that doesn't work.
Use /verbosity:detailed and redirect output to a file. Look through the verbiage to see what's happening with the ResolveProjectReferences target. You can also use /verbosity:diag and see details of why is skipped things etc. That might be useful since the Condition on the various tasks used there are pretty hairy.
Solution1.sln contains two projects:
ProjectA.csproj
ProjectB.csproj
ProjectB has a custom target called "Foo". I want to run:
msbuild Solution1.sln /t:Foo
This will fail because ProjectA doesn't define the "Foo" target.
Is there a way to make the solution ignore the missing target? (E.g., do nothing if the target doesn't exist for a specific project) without modifying the SLN or project files?
There is a two-part solution if you don't want to edit the solution or project files and you're happy for it to work from MSBuild command-line but not from Visual Studio.
Firstly, the error you get when you run:
MSBuild Solution1.sln /t:Foo
Is not that ProjectA does not contain a Foo target but that the solution itself does not contain a Foo target. As #Jaykul suggests, setting the MSBuildEmitSolution environment variable will reveal the default targets contained within the solution metaproj.
Using the metaproj as inspiration you can introduce a new file "before.Solution1.sln.targets" next to the solution file (the file name pattern is important) with contents like this:
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<Target Name="Foo">
<MSBuild Projects="#(ProjectReference)" Targets="Foo" BuildInParallel="True" Properties="CurrentSolutionConfigurationContents=$(CurrentSolutionConfigurationContents); SolutionDir=$(SolutionDir); SolutionExt=$(SolutionExt); SolutionFileName=$(SolutionFileName); SolutionName=$(SolutionName); SolutionPath=$(SolutionPath)" SkipNonexistentProjects="%(ProjectReference.SkipNonexistentProjects)" />
</Target>
</Project>
The MSBuild element is mostly just copied from the solution metaproj's Publish target. Adjust the target name and any other details to suit your scenario.
With this file in place, you'll now get the error that ProjectA does not contain the Foo target. ProjectB may or may not build anyway depending on inter-project dependencies.
So, secondly, to solve this problem we need to give every project an empty Foo target which is then overridden in projects that actually already contain one.
We do this by introducing another file, eg "EmptyFoo.targets" (name not important) that looks like this:
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<Target Name="Foo" />
</Project>
And then we get every project to automatically import this targets file either by running MSBuild with an extra property, eg:
MSBuild Solution1.sln /t:Foo /p:CustomBeforeMicrosoftCommonTargets=c:\full_path_to\EmptyFoo.targets
Or include the CustomerBeforeMicrosoftCommonTargets property in the Properties attribute on the MSBuild element in the first targets file where you could optionally specify the full path relative to the $(SolutionDir) property.
However, if you're willing to run Foo in conjunction with any of the default solution targets (ie Build, Rebuild, Clean, or Publish) you could take some inspiration for how the Web Publishing Pipeline in MSBuild uses the DeployOnBuild property to call the Publish target on Web projects in a solution containing other project types that don't support publishing.
More info on the before.Solution1.sln.targets file here:
http://sedodream.com/2010/10/22/MSBuildExtendingTheSolutionBuild.aspx
You can target those by project name, like /t:project:target (might need quotes, I can't remember).
You can find all the generated targets by setting the environment variable MSBuildEmitSolution = 1 ... which causes msbuild to save to disk the temp .metaproj file which it generates for your solution. That file has all those targets defined in it, just open it up and take a look ;)
Maybe not the best answer but a reasonable hack.
msbuild ProjectA.csproj
msbuild ProjectB.csproj /t:Foo
When msbuild building solution - msbuild emits only limited set of targets into it's .metaproj file, and afaik - you can't build custom target through building sln file, you have to use original project1.csproj or custom build script.
Just for reference:
Use ContinueOnError when using MSBuildTask or -p:ContinueOnError=ErrorAndContinue when using (dotnet) msbuild
It may be in limited scenarios helpful: For example you have a list of .csproj files and want attach metadata only to specific project file items then you could write something like this:
<Target Name="UniqueTargetName" Condition="'$(PackAsExecutable)' == 'Package' Or '$(PackAsExecutable)' == 'Publish'" Outputs="#(_Hello)">
<ItemGroup>
<_Hello Include="$(MSBuildProjectFullPath)" />
</ItemGroup>
</Target>
<Target Name="BuildEachTargetFramework" DependsOnTargets="_GetTargetFrameworksOutput;AssignProjectConfiguration;_SplitProjectReferencesByFileExistence"
Condition="$(ExecutableProjectFullPath) != ''">
<Message Text="[$(MSBuildThisFilename)] Target BuildEachTargetFramework %(_MSBuildProjectReferenceExistent.Identity)" Importance="high" />
<MSBuild
Projects="%(ProjectReferenceWithConfiguration.Identity)"
Targets="UniqueTargetName"
ContinueOnError="true">
<Output TaskParameter="TargetOutputs" ItemName="_Hallo2" />
</MSBuild>
<Message Text="[$(MSBuildThisFilename)] ########### HELLO %(_Hallo2.Identity)" Importance="high" />
</Target>
I created a custom common target "RealClean" which remove every files in the output and "intermediate output" directory. I put it in the Microsoft.Common.targets file.
When I run MsBuild on my csproj everything is fine.
But when I run MsBuild on my sln (which just references a list of csproj) I have the following error
error MSB4057: The target "RealClean" does not exist in the project.
Here is the command line I enter to run MsBuild
C:\Windows\Microsoft .NET\Framework\v3.5\MsBuild.exe /p:Configuration="Release";OutputPath="..\..\MSBuild.Referentiel.net35";nowarn="1591,1573" /t:RealClean mySolution.sln
Any hint?
I had the same issue but didn't want to modify things outside of the source tree in order to get this to work. Adding files to C:\Program Files... means that you have to do this manually on every dev machine to get the same behavior.
I did three things:
1) Created a Custom targets file which I import into every C# and/or VB/F# project in my solution by adding the following to each proj file:
<!-- Rest of project file -->
<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(SolutionDir)' == '' or '$(SolutionDir)' == '*undefined*'">
<!-- Relative path to containing solution folder -->
<SolutionDir>..\</SolutionDir>
</PropertyGroup>
<Import Project="$(SolutionDir)CommonSettings.targets" />
2) Added a clean target which gets called after the real Clean (using the AfterTargets attribute from MSBuild 4.0):
<Target Name="CleanCs" AfterTargets="Clean">
<Message Text="Deep cleaning C# project..." />
<CreateItem Include="$(OutDir)**\*.*; $(ProjectDir)\obj\**\*.*; $(IntermediateOutputPath)**\*.*"
Exclude="**\bin\**\*.vshost.exe; $(IntermediateOutputPath)**\*.log">
<Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="AfterClean_FilesToDelete"/>
</CreateItem>
<Delete Files="#(AfterClean_FilesToDelete)" />
<CreateItem Include="$(ProjectDir)\obj\" >
<Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="AfterClean_DirectoriesToDelete" />
</CreateItem>
<CreateItem Include ="$(ProjectDir)\bin\" Condition="'$(TargetExt)' != '.exe'" >
<Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="AfterClean_DirectoriesToDelete"/>
</CreateItem>
<RemoveDir ContinueOnError="true" Directories="#(AfterClean_DirectoriesToDelete)" />
</Target>
3) In my continuous integration MSBuild project I check and make sure that all proj files have #1:
<ItemGroup>
<!-- Exclude viewer acceptance tests as they must compile as x86 -->
<CheckProjects_CsProjects Include="**\*.csproj" />
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="CheckProjects">
<!--
Look for C# projects that don't import CommonSettingsCs.targets
-->
<XmlRead XPath="//n:Project[count(n:Import[#Project[contains(string(), 'CommonSettingsCs.targets')]]) = 0]/n:PropertyGroup/n:AssemblyName/text() "
XmlFileName="%(CheckProjects_CsProjects.Identity)"
Namespace="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003"
Prefix="n" >
<Output TaskParameter="Value" ItemName="CheckProjects_CsMissingImports"/>
</XmlRead>
<Error Text="Project missing CommonSettingsCs.targets: %(CheckProjects_CsMissingImports.Identity)"
Condition="'%(CheckProjects_CsMissingImports.Identity)' != ''" />
</Target>
This prevents developers from forgetting to add #1. You could create your own project template to ensure that al new projects have this by default.
The advantage to this approach is setting up a new source tree enlistment doesn't involve anything more than getting the current source tree. The downside is that you have to edit the project files once when you create them.
To work on solution file, MSBuild creates a temporary MSBuild project file containing only some targets like Build and Clean. So you can't call your custom target on a solution file.
Madgnome is probably right. But I wanted to add that you should not be editing the Microsoft.common.targets files. If you do so you risk having a different build process on that machine versus what everybody else has. In your case you could have created a new MSBuild file with just the RealClean target and placed it at
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\v4.0\Custom.After.Microsoft.Common.targets
or for 32 bit
C:\Program Files\MSBuild\v4.0\Custom.After.Microsoft.Common.targets
and essentially that would be the same as putting that file inside of Microsoft.Common.targets, except you don't have to modify that file.
I'm creating a custom ITask for MSBuild which uploads the output files of my build. I'm using a web deployment project to publish my app and hooking in to the AfterBuild target to do my custom work.
If I add a file to my web application, the first time I do a build, my custom task is not recognizing the recently added file. In order for that file to show up in my array of ITaskItems, I have to first do a build with my 'AfterBuild' target removed and then start the build again with my 'AfterBuild' target in place.
Here is what my build file looks like:
<ItemGroup>
<PublishContent Include="$(OutputPath)\**" />
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="AfterBuild">
<UploadTask FilesToPublish="#(PublishContent)" />
</Target>
The list in #(PublishContent) seems to be initialized at the beginning of the build instead of reflecting any changes that might have taken place by the build process itself.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Your ItemGroup is going to get evaluated when the project file first loads (when you first open Visual Studio or you 'unload' and 'reload' the project in Solution Explorer).
What you probably need is to create an ItemGroup as a task in your 'AfterBuild' target. Example:
<CreateItem Include="$(OutputPath)\**">
<Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="OutputFiles"/>
</CreateItem>
followed by:
<Target Name="AfterBuild">
<UploadTask FilesToPublish="#(OutputFiles)" />
</Target>