I want to automate the build process for my C# solutions. How can I build C# solutions from the command line so that I don’t have to deal with dependencies manually?
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I want to automate the build process for my C# solutions. How can I build C# solutions from the command line so that I don’t have to deal with dependencies manually?
if you open a visual studio command prompt from your start menu – then you can call MSBuild and give that either the .sln file or a specific .csproj file in order to build what you need
alternatively you can create a custom MSBuild file that takes care of the tasks.
one tip: make sure the version of MSBuild that you use is applicable to the target framework or tools version of the project
i.e. if you try and build a solution that was created in vs2010 with msbuild 3.5 then it will not recognise the 4.0 toolset of the project