Question

I’d like to have a script that stops a certain windows service,build or rebuild a solution and runs the service after the build process finished.

Should I use Msbuild for this ? Or is there any other way ?

Answer 1

You can use a batch file that will stop the service, build the solution then start the service:

net stop "service name"
<path to msbuild>\msbuild.exe <path to solution file>
net start "service name"

See how to start/stop services from the command line, and the msbuild command line reference.

Your other option, as mentioned is to use the MSBuild community tasks. There are many of them – ServiceController is the specific one for your need.