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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Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.CSharp.targets missing on CI server
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I just committed the addition of a UWP application to source control. However, my CI server (Jenkins) didn't seem to like that:
error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files
(x86)...
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How can I extend my publish profile to deploy to multiple locations?
The following is the generated publish profile for my dev environment:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
This file is used by the publish/package process of your Web project. You ...
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How do I get the name of the current Target in MSBuild?
Is there a way to get the Name of the currently running Target in MSBuild?
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Diagnosing why Visual Studio skips building a project
I have a large solution of dozens of projects. Since yesterday (and for no good reason that I can find) the projects are refusing to build, with Visual Studio's build output window simply stating (eg)
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Prevent `dotnet pack --no-build` from triggering a build and causing NETSDK1085
I expect that when running the following two commands, the latter will not trigger a new build:
dotnet build solution.sln --configuration Release
dotnet pack solution.sln --configuration Release --no-...
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msbuild just deploy without build
I know I can do this to build and deploy:
msbuild mysln.sln /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=<profile-name>
But I want to build in one step, move those artifacts to another location, ...
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How can I change the default behaviour of the Build Command in Visual Studio
Where I work, we've gone to great lengths to create a build script in Fake that does a whole host of things, so that developers can check what's going to happen on the TeamCity server before ...
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The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\Portable\Microsoft.Portable.CSharp.targets" was not found
When compiling, I get this error
The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\Portable\Microsoft.Portable.CSharp.targets" was not found.
If I comment it out, I get
The <...
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Migration from packages.config to PackageReferences causes Could not load file or assembly "..." or one of its dependencies. Access is denied
After upgrading our projects to PackageReferences I am facing the following issue on the build server (on-premise AzureDevOps agents)
"C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Xaml....
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MsDeploy - Can't update Application Pool
I've been browsing dozens of sites to help me deploy a web service to an IIS using MsDeploy.
I need to create the application, modify application pool and enable protocols, and update a appSetting (...
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"sgen.exe" could not be run in VSBuild on Azure Pipelines
Running the build locally is good, no problems whatsoever.. When I did run this on an Azure Pipeline it errors out.
The detailed error message is
The command-line for the "SGen" task is too ...
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ASP.NET Core & SPA - client files not published when the client is outside of the server folder
I have a project which has separate client and server folders and my goal is to include client files during the server's publish process. The folder structure looks like this
|- server
| |- src
| ...
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What does the pipelinePreDeployCopyAllFilesToOneFolder target do?
I've seen msbuild commands pass /t:pipelinePreDeployCopyAllFilesToOneFolder as a target. On searching the Internet, I've found many forum and question/answers posts about this target. That said, I've ...
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XAML MSBuild task XamlMarkupCompilePass1 fails in parallel MSBuild and throws error Access denied
We have several projects containing XAML UI and XAML workflow files. Since we enabled execution of MSBuild in parallel, with the flag /m the builds, from time to time we get an exception in the ...
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Have MSBuild only build targets that require building
So long story short, we've got a situation of having multiple solutions with assembly references between them. Used to be, we had to go and build these solutions in the correct order to have our ...
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