How to run msbuild projects with TeamCity-specific tasks OUTSIDE TeamCity?
Hi,
[I couldn't find the solution to this that must be a common problem, sorry if it's been posted before]
I run msbuild projects from within TeamCity with great success. However, I sometimes want to modify the msbuild proj files on my developer machine (not on the build server). The problem is then, that the msbuild project files are sprinkled with TeamCity-specific stuff that doesn't work when run directly with msbuild.exe. Examples:
<UsingTask TaskName="NUnit" AssemblyFile="$(teamcity_dotnet_nunitlauncher_msbuild_task)" />
<TeamCitySetBuildNumber BuildNumber="$(Version)" />
<TeamCityProgressMessage Text="Building $(Configuration)" />
The solution is to temporary comment out those lines, but is there a good solution to this problem?
Thanks a lot.
//Sire
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What I do is have it detect something that is specific to being built on a TeamCity agent and put it inside the 'Condition'. Like this:
<TeamCityProgressMessage
Condition="'$(TEAMCITY_BUILD_PROPERTIES_FILE)' != '' "
Text="Message to the TC interface" />
Hope this helps.
Dave
Thanks a lot, that did it!
JetBrains developers, please include this in the manual!