Thursday, February 15, 2007
MSBuild
Looking at this URL: Inside MS Build from June 2006 issue of MSDN magazine,
I was amazed how online content from Microsoft also contains errors.
Apart from a missing step, there was an absence of caveats to make this article useful.
Disclaimer: I appreciate the efforts taken by the author to write this article. But, since the article says that it is written for VS 2005, and I tested it on the same, coming from MS is a bit shoddy.
Anyways, these were the issues I had the with the article:
I was amazed how online content from Microsoft also contains errors.
Apart from a missing step, there was an absence of caveats to make this article useful.
Disclaimer: I appreciate the efforts taken by the author to write this article. But, since the article says that it is written for VS 2005, and I tested it on the same, coming from MS is a bit shoddy.
Anyways, these were the issues I had the with the article:
- Missing step: Does not define the SourceCopy variable.
- Missing caveat: Any hard enters in the project XML file are transliterated.
Following is workaround/fix:
- Missing step: Does not define the SourceCopy variable.
Define it!
<propertygroup>
<copylocation>SourceCopy</copylocation>
</propertygroup>
2. Any hard enters in the project XML file are transliterated. So make sure that the entire path in on one physical line.
Labels: MSBuild
