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Asked: 2026-05-14T00:02:03+00:00

A very small portion of our codebase is some legacy Java code. I’m trying

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A very small portion of our codebase is some legacy Java code. I’m trying to add a new build that would invoke ant to build this project.

The first problem is that TFS doesn’t allow you to create a build that doesn’t build a .Net solution. I got around this by copying a previous build file and adding an EndToEndIteration task which is the entry point for the build.

The problem is that none of the usual build variables are populated – $(BuildDirectory), $(SolutionRoot) – all blank. This pretty much means I can’t invoke my ant task without hardcoding the paths (which I definitely can’t do).

Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Thanks for all the answers.

    In the end I resorted to including an empty solution next to the build file. This way all the variables are populated and I simply included a which did everything I wanted.

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