How to call a custom target after building each individual solution (sln) in Team Build?

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Don't override CoreCompile

Buck Hodges — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:52:32 GMT

There have been several times when folks have needed to run a custom target prior to building each solution...

re: How to call a custom target after building each individual solution (sln) in Team Build?

Buck Hodges — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:31:45 GMT

For those who try this, note that you'll need to copy the TeamBuildMessage task invocations as well, otherwise the logger will crash (Steve points this out in his blog post http://sstjean.blogspot.com/2006/06/tfs-team-build-problems-with-calling.html). The v1 logger depends on those messages to determine what's being built.

Regardless, it's not a good idea to override any of the Core* targets, especially CoreCompile, as they will definitely be changing in future releases.

Buck

re: How to call a custom target after building each individual solution (sln) in Team Build?

Steven St Jean — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:36:45 GMT

Your override of the CoreCompile target does fewer tasks than the original version in Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets. Do you believe that this will materially change the behavior of the overridden build vs. the behavior of the original?

re: How to call a custom target after building each individual solution (sln) in Team Build?

Steven St Jean — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:32:53 GMT

At the end of your article, you mention that the logger will crash under certain circumstances. Can you elaborate further on why this occurs? I am using your pattern to perform code generation prior to compilation and it looks like the logger is crashing during the run. My build is failing and I have a truncated build log.

re: How to call a custom target after building each individual solution (sln) in Team Build?

Jan Bergstrom — Fri, 19 May 2006 20:07:01 GMT

I think I have answered my own question:

When calling the target for MSBuild to do the CoreCompile, pass the original $(SolutionRoot) with

Properties="SolutionRoot=$(SolutionRoot)"

re: How to call a custom target after building each individual solution (sln) in Team Build?

Jan Bergstrom — Mon, 15 May 2006 23:58:55 GMT

I have tried to do something like this on the main Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets file on CoreCompile. I would like to insert a target that is executed for each configuration immediately before that configuration.

If I use $(SolutionRoot)\TeamBuildTypes\$(BuildType)\tfsbuild.proj as the reference for the recursive call to the project file, it can't find my solutions (because it now searches relative to this file rather than relative to $(SolutionRoot)\..\BuildType\tfsbuild.proj. If I use $(SolutionRoot)\..\BuildType\tfsbuild.proj, the build crashes on the server claiming that it can't find the working directory.

How do I insert a target into the CoreBuild step that is executed once for each configuration, and not mess up all the other stuff that the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets CoreBuild is doing?

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