I get following error when I try the following command:
devenv.exe /build Debug SetupProject.vdproj
ERROR: Unable to update the dependencies of the project.
We use to build our Vdproject using devenv.exe. Devenv.exe will be wrapped into MSbuild exec task.
You can get reference from Msdn.
But your error is not relevant to msbuild problem
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I have some cloud service projects , which i am trying to get it into CI/CD. When i right click on the project from Visual Studio and click Package it does what i want. I can see the ServiceConfiguration.cscfg and ServiceDefinition.csdef in the bin\Release folder after the package command is completed.
How can i achieve the same from an MSBuild command line ? I have tried
msbuild.exe
/p:DeployTarget=Package
/p:DeployOnBuild=true
/p:AutomatedBuild=True
/p:configuration=release
/p:outdir="D:\Pub"
/p:targetprofile="Cloud"
/target:Publish
/p:SolutionDir=$/src/mysln/ WorkerRole.ccproj
What i get is the command completes and i can see around 241 dll and the required files in the folder. Am i missing something in the command argument ? Please advice
Edit : Also refered the official docs , could'nt find anything
Edit 2 : Looks like i can get the packages generated. Now the problem is doing this in VSTS. The build is failing with " projectfile="*Undefined*Obfuscator\Maps\
Basically the solution path is becoming as undefined
Edit 3 : Here's the error message when i try to build only the CloudServiceProj
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(5165,5): Error MSB3073: The command "if "Release" == "Debug" goto :exit
"*Undefined*Obfuscator\Tool\CO" projectfile="*Undefined*Obfuscator\Maps
The undefined is working fine locally , since it has the $(SolutionDir) variable in VS. Not sure how do i handle it here
Update
Here's the msbuild that am using
Update 4
I tried building the solution directly as suggested, but it has some .NET CORE as well as .NET Framework projects and i am getting this error
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.2.105\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Publish\build\netstandard1.0\Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Publish.targets(163,11): Error MSB4006: There is a circular dependency in the target dependency graph involving target "Publish"..
What i get is the command completes and i can see around 241 dll and the required files in the folder. Am i missing something in the command argument ?
For this question, you can try to change the argument /p:outdir="D:\Pub" to /p:PublishDir="D:\Pub". That because the argument outdir is used to stored the output files not the publish files, it contains the build output of the projects (including the reference project). That the reason why there are around 241 dll and the required files in the folder.
As I test, if I change the argument to PublishDir, it works fine:
For the second question, I am not familiar with Azure Cloud Service, as I know about MSBuild/Visual Studio, we should build the "main" project instead of the reference project, so you can try to build the AzureCloudService.ccproj or build the solution file .sln.
Besides, when we build the project/solution, we do not need specify the solution folder, just specify the project file or solution directly:
msbuild.exe "TheRelativePathForYourSolutionInRepos.sln" /t:Publish /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:AutomatedBuild=True /p:configuration=release /p:TargetProfile=Cloud /p:PublishDir="D:\Pub"
If above not resolve your questions, please share your build error log in your question.
Update:
For the second part, I have a post build event which does some
obfuscation .
If you have use any Macros, like $(SolutionDir) in your build event, but build the project file, you will got that error. Because the project reference information exists in the solution information, we can't access it when we only build one project.
Try to replace all $(SolutionDir) with $(ProjectDir)..\
Update2:
Since you can build the .sln file on your local without any issue, you could also build the .sln file with Azure pipeline. As test, I could build the .sln file in the Azure pipeline:
Besides, if you have replace $(SolutionDir) with $(ProjectDir)..\, how do you still get the error Undefined? Try to double check you build event, or you can share it in the question.
Hope this helps.
I have a C# solution with VS 2017, containing an app project and a test project. I can use the "create app package" wizard to create one single bundle for x86 and x64. However, I would like to automate this process, which means I need to use msbuild in command line to do the same work.
With the reference from here and here, I got:
msbuild .\MyProject.sln /p:AppxBundle=Always /p:AppxBundlePlatforms="x86|x64" /p:Configuration=Debug
But I will get errors for my test projects, like:
MakeAppx : error : Error info: error 80080204: The package with file name "Tests.XXXX.Shared.Uwp_1.0.0.0_x86_Debug.appx" and package full name "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxx_1.0.0.0_x86__xxxxxxxxxxx" is not valid in the bundle because it has a different package family name than other packages in the bundle. The expected package name is xxxx-Test.xxxxTestApp....
My guess is that I should not use "Always" for AppxBundle, but I cannot find any document online mentioning how to set this value as "If Needed". I also tried to add "Never" in project properties for the test project, but the command line argument seems to overwrite that.
So my question is: How to exclude a test project from the solution when creating a bundle using msbuild in the command line?
How to exclude a test project from the solution when creating a bundle using msbuild in the command line?
To resolve this issue, you can build the project file directly when you create a bundle using MSBuild in the command line:
msbuild .\YourProjectFile.csproj /p:AppxBundle=Always /p:AppxBundlePlatforms="x86|x64" /p:Configuration=Debug
Alternatively, you can open test project file and add the following properties at the end of the first <PropertyGroup> element to exclude the test project to be included:
<PropertyGroup>
<AppxBundle>Never</AppxBundle>
</PropertyGroup>
Check this thread and the document for some more details.
Hope this helps.
My web project builds and works fine under Visual Studio 2017, but I'm having trouble creating a project in TeamCity.
MSBuild Error "ASPNETCOMPILER error ASPRUNTIME: Failed to map the path '/temp'" occured.
How to solve this problem?
So, I solved this problem in the TeamCity build, I use the MSBUILD builder like this:
Targets: Rebuild;Publish
Command line parameters for build and tests: /p:WebProjectOutputDir="%system.teamcity.build.workingDir%\Website"
You can then use the Website directory as your artifact.
Steps to reproduce
dotnet new console
(introduce a bug in Program.cs)
dotnet restore
dotnet build
The typical output would be:
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 15.1.548.43366 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Program.cs(5,5): error CS0116: A namespace cannot directly contain members such as fields or methods [/Users/xxx/Documents/myproj/myproj.csproj]
Build FAILED.
Program.cs(5,5): error CS0116: A namespace cannot directly contain members such as fields or methods [/Users/xxx/Documents/myproj/myproj.csproj]
0 Warning(s)
1 Error(s)
Time Elapsed 00:00:01.77
You can see the error CS0116 is reported twice.
Is there a way to avoid the duplication in the reporting of errors?
The second error is part of the console logger's summary. This can be disabled by passing in /clp:NoSummary to msbuild. However, there is currently a bug in the CLI when it is the first MSBuild argument to dotnet build. Add any other MSBuild command before it to make it work. Since you want to reduce the verbosity, let's just use /nologo for the workaround:
dotnet build -c Release /nologo /clp:NoSummary
However, it works great if you use MSBuild directly:
dotnet msbuild /clp:NoSummary /p:Configuration=Release
In the upcoming 2.0.0 release, the CLI always overrides the summary parameter for dotnet build, so you'll have to use dotnet msbuild instead (I opened an issue on GitHub on that).
You can make your own MSBuild logger, instead of using the default console logger. There are really good instructions in Build loggers.
Essentially, you could make your own logger that captured all the data, and then emitted a simple summary at the end.
dotnet build /noconsolelogger /logger:YourCustomLogger.dll
I'm trying to create a .netstandard nuget package following these instructions, using VS2017 RC. It builds fine, but when I try to create the package using
msbuild /t:pack /p:Configuration=Release
I get an error, that the target pack is not available in my solution:
error MSB4057: The target "pack" does not exist in the project.
I'm not really sure what to do with this message or where I should be looking to fix it. Any suggestions?
Thanks to an answer on the MSDN forums I was able to get it working.
You'll have to specify your .csproj in the build command so it won't try to use the solution file (.sln).
msbuild "C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\visual studio 2017\Projects\AppLogger\AppLogger\AppLogger.csproj" /t:pack /p:Configuration=Release
Additionally I had to install the NuGet.Build.Tasks.Pack" package from NuGet.
The command msbuild /t:pack /p:Configuration=Release is specifying that MSBuild should run the pack target within the build script. The error indicates that MSBuild isn't able to find that target within the build script (or one of it's imports). Have you double checked your prerequisites? You're either using the wrong build script or it's missing an <import> tag.
You must import targets before using them. In project file before using targets write:
<Import Project="$(VSToolsPath)\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' != ''" />