Question

I have this command in a post build event:

if $(ConfigurationName) == Release “$(SolutionDir)Tools\NuGet.exe” pack “$(ProjectDir)MyProject.Contracts.nuspec”

This works just fine when I compile in Visual Studio. But when my build runs this it fails. That is because someone somewhere thought it was a good idea to have builds on TFS not run the same as a build on a dev machine.

In this case it is the fact that all output files are grouped into a common “Binaries” folder.

So, my question is this:

Is there a property I can use (instead of ProjectDir) that will allow me to reference the output location of the build?

Meaning that it will point to the binaries folder when running a TFS build and point to my normal output when doing a normal Visual Studio based build.

I tried $(OutDir) but it equated to “bin\Release\”
UPDATE: I tried to use $(OutDir) but Visual Studio fails with the partial path it provides. Is there something that could be used with $(OutDir) to give a full path for both Visual Studio and TFS builds?

In case it matters:

• TFS version is TFS 2010 (Latest releases installed)
• Build Machine and Dev Machine are both running Windows 7 and VS 2010 Ulitmate

Answer 1

$(OutDir) should resolve to your bin\debug or bin\release etc for local builds, on the build server this will be resolved to the Binaries folder.

So yes, $(OutDir) should be the right one to use.