Resolving file references in team build ( Part -2 )

re: Resolving file references in team build ( Part -2 )

ManishAgarwal — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:38:50 GMT

I have amended the .vbproj of one of my class libraries with the target below in an attempt to have a centralised binaries folder containing my external references, but when I build through the IDE, I dont get a 'Binaries' folder created containing the class library. DO I need to define $(SolutionDir) and/or $(TargetPath) for this target to work or is there something else I need to do?

<Target Name="AfterBuild">

<Exec

Command="xcopy /Y /S /F $(TargetPath) $(SolutionDir)..\binaries" />

</Target>

re: Resolving file references in team build ( Part -2 )

ManishAgarwal — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:40:57 GMT

You are right I didn't accounted for desktop build in my example. In intent was to give a rough idea of what needs to be done.

However to solve you problem, you can do the following; -

In your csproj file of the project, add the following lines

<PropertyGroup>

<CentralisedBinariesFolderLocation Condition="'$(BuildingInsideVisualStudio)'=='true'">
c:\temp
</CentralisedBinariesFolderLocation>

<CentralisedBinariesFolderLocation Condition="'$(BuildingInsideVisualStudio)'!='true'">
$(SolutionDir)..\binaries
</CentralisedBinariesFolderLocation>
</PropertyGroup>

<Target Name="AfterBuild">
<Exec
Command="xcopy /Y /S /F $(TargetPath) $(CentralisedBinariesFolderLocation)" />
</Target>

Please note that -
1) BuildingInsideVisualStudio and TargetPath properties are defined inside Microsoft.Common.targets. They are evaluated for each project seperately. You do not need to define these properties.
2) I have not tried this scenario on my machine but i am sure it should work. Do let us know if you face other issues.

re: Resolving file references in team build ( Part -2 )

Simon Burgess — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:12:33 GMT

You might find that you need to add a /R to the xcopy command as once you checkin the CustomLibrary.dll into source control in the 'binaries' folder, the next time you try to build CustomLibrary locally, the AfterBuild target will fail because its trying to overwrite a read-only file

re: Resolving file references in team build ( Part -2 )

KjellSJ — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:56:54 GMT

Thanks for all this useful info, especially the %3B bug.

re: Resolving file references in team build ( Part -2 )

Nikhil Khandelwal — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:31:07 GMT

Hey thanks for the info - it was quite useful.

re: Resolving file references in team build ( Part -2 )

joey bradshaw — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:10:24 GMT

The %3B bug is not fixed in beta 3! Hope this gets fixed in RTM...

re: Resolving file references in team build ( Part -2 )

Manish Agarwal — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:01:51 GMT

Joey,

We have fixed this bug in RTM bits. Thanks for your feedback

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re: Resolving file references in team build ( Part -2 )

Bharti — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:32:56 GMT

Hi,

Is it possible to get the hint path automatically generated for our own assemblies. When I build my assembly I observe that for those assemblies which are 3'rd party hintpath automatically gets included but if I refer some other file reference in my project then in my csproj file (I work in c#) we do not get <HintPath>. We have to manuallly add it :(.

Any suggestions please.

Regards

Bharti