specify project file of a solution using msbuild

msbuild test.sln /t:project /p:Configuration=”Release” /p:Platform=”x86″ /p:BuildProjectReferences=false Notice that what is assigned to /t is the project name in the solution, it can be different from the project file name. Also, as stated in How to: Build specific targets in solutions by using MSBuild.exe: If the project name contains any of the characters %, $, @, … Read more

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Update for those who got this issue for VS2013 or VS2015 after upgrading a VS200X setup project using the Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects extension. Following the recipe for v1.0.0.0 from MS finally made it work for me: Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects Unfortunately we couldn’t address all cases of the command line issue for … Read more