Automate Visual studio build for creating setup files.

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Hello all,

I have a visual studio setup project (with the extension .vdproj). How can I automate the build (creating msi & exe).
I have tried MSBuild.exe, but not worked. (I was able to build projects with .sln extension using MSBuild.exe).

is it possible to create setup, either using command prompt or c#.

Update : I found that I can do this using the following command

C#

<Visual Studio Program Path>\devenv "<Project location>\<appname>.vdproj" /Build "Release|Any CPU"

and tried it as follows

C#

<C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE>\devenv "<C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\SebSetup>\SebSetup.vdproj" /Build "Release|Any CPU"

But it throws an error : The system cannot find the file specified.
Any help on this would be great.

Thanks
Sebastian

Posted 24-Apr-12 20:01pm

Sebastian T Xavier

Updated 26-Apr-12 19:34pm

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[no name] 26-Apr-12 9:11am

Probably because "<c:\users\admin\desktop\sebsetup>\SebSetup.vdproj" doesn't exist.

Sebastian T Xavier 4-May-12 1:06am

The project file is there. the path is correct.

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Solution 1

Look here:
How do you automate a visual studio build?[^]

Try:

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devenv solution.sln /build configuration

Posted 24-Apr-12 20:33pm

Sandeep Mewara

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Sebastian T Xavier 25-Apr-12 2:38am

Thanks for your reply.
1. I have already gone through this link. Will this above given command work
without visual studio?
1. Will this work with set up projects? (with .vdproj extension)
2. Can I do this without VS command prompt(with windows command prompt or
power shell)?
Thanks & regards
Sebastian

Sandeep Mewara 26-Apr-12 10:10am

I am not sure of them Sebastian, I too know as much it was written in link above. Just shared with you.
If you try out and succeed/fail... do tell me too.

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Sebastian T Xavier · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-02T00:22:00

Hello,

This problem is solved. I could run the below script by creating a solution with the same name of my web setup project

XML

"C:\Progra~1\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv" "C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\SebNewRESTSetup\SebNewRESTSetup.sln" /Build "Release" /Project SebNewRESTSetup

Thanks for all support.

Sebastian