Comments on: Building .NET 3.5 Applications with Team Build 2005

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:56:11 +0000

oh never mind, I figured it out, it should be a “Web Application” project and change the output to .exe here is the fuller code I used (the middle part is same as yours), this might have an EXTRA using statement or two, but it does work (and works great I must say):

using System;
using Microsoft.CSharp;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Threading;
using System.IO;

namespace MSBuild
{
class Program
{
public static int Main(string[] args)
{
for (int argIndex=0; argIndex {
if (args[argIndex].Contains(” “))
{
string quotedArg= string.Format(“\”{0}\”", args[argIndex]);
args[argIndex]=quotedArg;
}
}

string arguments = string.Join(” “,args);
Process process = Process.Start(“C:\\WINDOWS\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v3.5\\MSBuild.exe”,arguments);

process.WaitForExit();
return process.ExitCode;
}
}

}

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:56:43 +0000

I feel a little silly, but I was trying to build your MSBuild.exe with your 25 lines of code so graciously provided. But since I am a web developer and not an application developer I’m not sure what type of Visual Studio Project I am supposed to use to create an .exe and I keep getting an error on the process.WaitForExit line, is there some type of using statement or reference that I am supposed to apply to this class?

Thanks so much for your help with this. The idea sounds great, I just need to actually create or get a copy of this .exe

By: Jonathan Dickinson

Jonathan Dickinson — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:58:56 +0000

I just put up a ‘more complete’ shim on my blog. It allows you to shim any file (via registry settings) and also supports the standard in, out and error streams, as well as the ctrl+c sequence. This should allow the MSTest.exe file to be shimmed as well (but I am still installing TFS 2005, so this isn’t confirmed).

http://geekswithblogs.net/jcdickinson/archive/2008/09/18/tfs-build-server-2005-with-2008-solutions.aspx

By: Wassup Jose » Blog Archive » TFS 2005 Build Server building 2008 Solutions

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:23:04 +0000

[...] thanks for making 2008 solutions build seamlessly in TFS2005! I had completely forgotten that a workaround was needed to build 2008 solutions in 2005 msbuild. However, you owe me a fucking apology for [...]

By: Vanitha

Vanitha — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:30:16 +0000

Barry/Tim,

Do you have a resolution to the issue that you are facing regarding getting the builds to run within Team Build? I am facing the same issue now, while the redirection to MSBuild 3.5 works as expected, there seems to be an error and Team Build does not provide any logs for me to determine what might be the issue. My Team Build type was created using VS 2005. Could this be an issue? The same build type works fine using MSBuild 2.0. I appreciate your inputs!

Thanks!

By: Mitch Denny

Mitch Denny — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:09:28 +0000

At this point I’d recommend upgrading to TFS 2008 as the best course of action.

By: Tommy Norman

Tommy Norman — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:51:44 +0000

Mitch,
I am consulting for a client where we need to build 3.5 projects on their TFS 2005 server, but they are uncomfortable changing the MSBuild executable. I was going to look into just shelling out to DEVENV and compiling the 3.5 projects from the command line (like you do for building setup projects). I was even contemplating writing a custom build taks to do it that could then take the output and write it to the build log. Before I started I wanted to see if this was way offbase or if you think it acutally might work.

regard,

Tommy

By: oo

oo — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:39:05 +0000

Thanks.

I’ve developed your idea further – my version of the tool reads TFSBuild.rsp and looks for the MSBuildCommandPath property. If present, the specified command gets called, otherwise the call is handed over to MSBuild-org.exe

TFSBuild.rsp
—————
/property:MSBuildCommandPath=C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\MSBuild.exe

This greatly eases our migration path to TFS2008. Cheers,
Olivier

By: Mitch Denny

Mitch Denny — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:30:31 +0000

Hi guys,

I’d recommend moving to TFS 2008 now, this was just an interim hack.

By: Andre

Andre — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:05:16 +0000

Hi Mitch,

I read you solution and I think that this is the same issue within my environment. I had some problems with the /p: arguments, which where treated wrongly. So I changed your code snippet. Here is my solution:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2656654&SiteID=1

cheers,

Andre