Serge van den Oever [Macaw]

Hi,

I am trying to run a vdproj setup project in Nant exec task to build a setup for deployment but it is giving me following error:

" [solution] Only C#, J#, VB.NET and C++ projects are supported.  Skipping projec

t 'D:\Mubashir\Projects\Net Projects\ITRS -- Senior Project\RA\RoyalSetup\RoyalS

etup.vdproj'."

My task in nant build file is as follows:

<exec failonerror="false" basedir="d:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\IDE"

program="devenv.com" commandline="${solution.file} /build ${config} /project RoyalSetup /out ${build.log.dir}\Royalmsi.log" />

<fail if="${not file::exists(msi-file-name)}">The MSI failed to build. See log\msi.log for more details.</fail>

please help me out if you can as I have been trying to get this thing working for more than a day; but no results so far.

I totally agree with Dr.NETjes, but I'm sorry to say that the only simple way to automate the build of deployment projects (vdproj) is to use devenv from the nant script. MSBUILD doesn't support vdproj files (you get warnings) yet (will it ever?).

Or, you can add the /out filename to the devenv.exe call, and filename will be your output file.

Hi,

Your suggestion with devenv.com helped me lot in automating nightly build.

Currently i am automating follwoing

1. Taking source from Visual Source Safe

2. Building the solution

3. Deploying the solution to "Emulator"

I am done with first two but not getting how to proceed with the third. Can u help me out in this? Is there any link i can get help on it? Since deployment to Emulator involves stuffs like connectting to device, selecting the emulator and deploying.

Kazi,

  Using the above <exec> command with the setup project name specified works great.  I have one issue that I am hoping is possible to resolve and that is... The Setup project that I am attempting to build using the command has spaces in the project name

"SpeechGear MS Word 2007Setup"  when I put this inside the commandline element it treats each space separated word as a separate project name.  I have tried alternate formats, see below, but the only means I have figured out to make this work is to rename the project.  Is there a different way to format the command line arguments in the quoted string so I can avoid renaming several projects?

Thanks,

Shane

commandline="Document.sln /Rebuild release /project ''SpeechGear MS Word 2007Setup'' /out .\07AddIn.log"

commandline="Document.sln /Rebuild release /project SpeechGear%20Document%20Add-in%20for%20MS%20Word%202007Setup /out .\07AddIn.log"

commandline="Document.sln /Rebuild release /project 'SpeechGearDocumentAdd-inforMSWord2007Setup' /out .\07AddIn.log"

commandline="Document.sln /Rebuild release /project \"SpeechGearDocumentAdd-inforMSWord2007Setup\" /out .\07AddIn.log"

Hi,

Your suggestion of devenv.com also helped me hugely for nightly builds.

MSBuild does not follow an identical building process to a build in the VS IDE. In particular it has real trouble compiling C++ projects that have references to C# projects. See here for more information: social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../f8f087fe-f820-490f-8872-5c8c5127ac46

However devenv.com got my around this and allowed me to set up a TeamCity automated build serve successfully.

Fantastic!

Thankyou

@Shane:

use <arg line="...."/>

instead of <commandline />