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Friday, 7 November 2008
Thursday, 6 November 2008
MSBuild & Text Transforms
I had a couple of problems with MSBuild scripts today. If you're not overly familiar with MSBuild I found Brennan's Blog has a create tutorial on it (http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2006/11/29/msbuild-basics-1of7/).
Firstly, ItemGroups are evaluated when the script is initially run (or something along these lines) - which in retrospect seems completely obvious. This means that if you want an ItemGroup to contain items from a build output (i.e. MSIs) then you have to create the ItemGroup via the CreateItem task. Basically, the ItemGroup is evaluated when you call the CreateItem task.
An example:
The second problem I had to overcome today was that I wanted MSBuild to transform my T4 templates. I'm currently using T4 to generate my config files as per Oleg Sych's posting at http://www.olegsych.com/2007/12/how-to-use-t4-to-generate-config-files/. This isn't really that hard to accomplish and can be done as follows:
I'm also using the MSBuild Community Tasks (http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/) in the last sample script. This is to make sure the config files that are checked out are writable. The Attrib task can be used to easily change file attributes.
Firstly, ItemGroups are evaluated when the script is initially run (or something along these lines) - which in retrospect seems completely obvious. This means that if you want an ItemGroup to contain items from a build output (i.e. MSIs) then you have to create the ItemGroup via the CreateItem task. Basically, the ItemGroup is evaluated when you call the CreateItem task.
An example:
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The second problem I had to overcome today was that I wanted MSBuild to transform my T4 templates. I'm currently using T4 to generate my config files as per Oleg Sych's posting at http://www.olegsych.com/2007/12/how-to-use-t4-to-generate-config-files/. This isn't really that hard to accomplish and can be done as follows:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\TextTemplating\1.1\TextTransform.exe
..\Construction\
I'm also using the MSBuild Community Tasks (http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/) in the last sample script. This is to make sure the config files that are checked out are writable. The Attrib task can be used to easily change file attributes.
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