Questions tagged [msbuild]
Microsoft Build Engine, also known as MSBuild, is a build platform for managed code and was part of .NET Framework.
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Packing multiple projects into singular NuGet package
I would like to pack a Roslyn source generator and another project that contains the attributes the source generator acts upon together into one NuGet package. To do this, I've decided that using a ...
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Problem building Windows Service project using CLI (C#)
I want to build a Windows Service project using CLI (dotnet or msbuild) to be able to make continuous delivery of a new project.
No problem to build a Windows Application, but, if I use dotnet build ...
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Build vcxproj with msbuild and warnings disabled [duplicate]
I have an Visual Studio example project with the purpose to generate compiler warnings. Warnings are enabled in the project settings. I want to build the project on the command line with msbuild and ...
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dotnet build "Could not resolve this reference. Could not locate the assembly" error but only occurs on CI?
I have a simple CI that builds my solution on GitLab. The project consist of a .NET Core project and a WCF project. I am encountering an error after installing the latest version of Newtonsoft JSON ...
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Exclude projects in nested folders while using dotnet build of solution file
Folder strucure of our project is below. While building the solution, we need to exclude some projects present. Please let me know if there is a way to exclude some projects while building a solution ...
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Build a single project respecting solution-level configuration mappings
I have a solution (My.sln) with two projects
App.csproj - application
Lib.csproj - class library
The App project references the Lib project via the <ProjectReference/>
I have configuration ...
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MSBuild detect if signed driver is same as previous built non-signed driver (prevent re-signing via caching)
My organization has a driver that now needs to be signed by both our organization and by Microsoft.
We have a build process that runs on windows as a batch file, it runs msbuild for all of the ...
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Directory.Build.props only respected when building .sln file
When I build my projects with the MyConfig target, I want the code to be optimized, and I don't want any .pdb files.
To achieve this, I have created a Directory.Build.props file like this in the root ...
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How do I run npm build as part of dotnet publish
I have an ASP.NET Core 8 web project, where the client source code lives in a client folder.
I also have an npm run build that will compile those client files, and copy the output to the wwwroot ...
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Getting exact cl.exe call when building a visual studio project or solution
When building a visual studio project or solution, how can I get the actual call to cl.exe that is executed? For instance, I would like to see something like
cl.exe /c /I"C:\Path\to\Include" ...
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Can I build a project targeting .NET 8 using msbuild from older version of Visual Studio?
I have an older version of Visual Studio 2022 that came out with .NET 7. Due to system requirements reasons I cannot upgrade the Visual Studio 2022 to the most recent version that supports .NET 8.
I ...
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Build csproj on Visual Studio without building references
Lets say you have a solution with projects A and B. A needs to B be build at least once so in order to be built with MSBuild i need it to be some kind of reference to setup the order of build.
But ...
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MAUI .NET 8 on Android - throwing an exception
I have created a new MAUI .NET 8 project and migrated the Xamarin forms project code. When I tried to run the project with the Android device with Visual Studio Windows, which threw the exception ...
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Issue with Nuget restore for .Net core application using dotnetbuild
We have our application developed in .Net 6.
While using dotnet build/msbuild nuget restore is getting error with letter 'v' we are using along with version number.
Please let me know if there is away ...
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Parsing .targets file with ElementTree does not find specified tag
I am trying to use ElementTree to parse information out of a .targets file from a NuGet package.
What I am trying to find is the tag <AdditionalIncludeDirectories>. I am using the following ...
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