Question

I have a solution with several projects. One of them is a setup project. If you expand the setup project in the Solution Explorer, you see a Detected Dependencies node. If you right click on it, you get a menu item called Refresh Dependencies. This refreshes any dependencies based on the files included in the setup.

I am asking if I can execute this action outside Visual Studio, using either devenv.com or MSBuild.

I want this because I am using CruiseControl.NET for continuous integration and in some solutions I found that the setup output is missing some dependencies because of the way I automatically build the projects.

Update:

It turned out that my setup is not very friendly to how Setup projects work in Visual Studio. I ended up using Post Build Events in order to create the whole application structure ready to just be copied to a computer and work out of the box. I am not using setup projects in Visual Studio anymore, unless I really have to.

Answer 1

Record or create a macro:

Option Strict Off Option Explicit Off Imports System Imports EnvDTE Imports EnvDTE80 Imports EnvDTE90 Imports System.Diagnostics  Public Module RefreshDependencies     Sub TemporaryMacro()         DTE.ActiveWindow.Object.GetItem('Project\Setup1\Setup1').Select(vsUISelectionType.vsUISelectionTypeSelect)         DTE.ExecuteCommand('Build.RefreshDependencies')     End Sub End Module 

Then just call the macro in the command line:

devenv /command ‘Macros.MyMacros.RefreshDependencies C:\MyProjects\MyApp\’