Question

I’m looking for a way to hit a web app/restful service URL from msbuild script to trigger remote procedure.
Is there any way how I can do that except calling that external app?
Ideally I’m looking for a way to break a build sequence if service returned something else that http 200

Answer 1

I use the MSBuild Community Tasks a lot. They add extra tasks for MSBuilds. In there is a HttpRequest task which, from the look of it, does what you want.

<HttpRequest Url="http://<mydomain.com>/index.php?checkdb=1" 
                EnsureResponseContains="Database upgrade check completed successfully." 
                FailOnNon2xxResponse="true" />

Hope this helps