SSAS projects can't be built using MSBuild. However, SSAS projects can reportedly be built using Visual Studio or SSAS Helper (description).
Using the Visual Studio GUI (devenv.exe), the build of my SSAS 2016 Tabular project does indeed build fine:
Visual Studio also provides a CLI for non-interactive use: devenv.com . However, although my project builds fine using the GUI, it throws an error when trying to build using the CLI:
How do I build my SSAS 2016 Tabular projects using the CLI? Does devenv.com use another library for building than devenv.exe?
Background / more information / tries:
The SSAS Helper Sample CLI yields the same error.
The internet doesn't seem to know about this problem..
My smproj file looks as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup>
<Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Development</Configuration>
<SchemaVersion>2.0</SchemaVersion>
<ProjectGuid>{8CE414BB-95B2-4C99-9E03-51BA72086E22}</ProjectGuid>
<OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
<RootNamespace>MyRootNamespace</RootNamespace>
<AssemblyName>MyAssemblyName</AssemblyName>
<EnableUnmanagedDebugging>false</EnableUnmanagedDebugging>
<OutputPath>bin\</OutputPath>
<Name>ProjectName_Tabular</Name>
<DeploymentServerName>devserver</DeploymentServerName>
<DeploymentServerEdition>Developer</DeploymentServerEdition>
<DeploymentServerVersion>Version_11_0</DeploymentServerVersion>
<DeploymentServerDatabase>ProjectName_Tabular</DeploymentServerDatabase>
<DeploymentServerCubeName>Model</DeploymentServerCubeName>
<DeploymentOptionProcessing>Default</DeploymentOptionProcessing>
<DeploymentOptionTransactionalDeployment>False</DeploymentOptionTransactionalDeployment>
<DeploymentOptionDirectQueryMode>InMemory</DeploymentOptionDirectQueryMode>
<DeploymentOptionQueryImpersonation>Default</DeploymentOptionQueryImpersonation>
<SccProjectName>SAK</SccProjectName>
<SccProvider>SAK</SccProvider>
<SccAuxPath>SAK</SccAuxPath>
<SccLocalPath>SAK</SccLocalPath>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Development' ">
<OutputPath>bin\Development\</OutputPath>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Release' ">
<OutputPath>bin\Release\</OutputPath>
<DeploymentServerEdition>Enterprise</DeploymentServerEdition>
<DeploymentOptionProcessing>Full</DeploymentOptionProcessing>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<Compile Include="ProjectName_Tabular.bim">
<SubType>Code</SubType>
<CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
</Compile>
</ItemGroup>
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Business Intelligence Semantic Model\1.0\Microsoft.AnalysisServices.VSHostBuilder.targets" />
</Project>
With tabular, you can run msbuild. For example,
msbuild TabularProject8.smproj /verbosity:m /target:Rebuild /property:Configuration=Release
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I created a custom MSBuild project that I can "build" from Visual Studio 2019, as described in https://stackoverflow.com/a/64917535/1536933. That is, I can select the Build menu item in VS and it runs my custom MSBuild task. Is there a way to do the same with "Run" - get VS to run my custom MSBuild task when I "Start" (or "Start without debugging") that project? I worked out that for the Build menu item to appear VS needs to see MSBuild targets named "Build" and "CoreCompile" - there is probably some equivalent for Start, but what?
The custom project file looks like this:
<Project DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" ToolsVersion="4.0">
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\$(MSBuildToolsVersion)\Microsoft.Common.props" Condition="Exists('$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\$(MSBuildToolsVersion)\Microsoft.Common.props')" />
<PropertyGroup>
<Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
<SchemaVersion>2.0</SchemaVersion>
<ProjectGuid>(some guid)</ProjectGuid>
<ProjectHome>.</ProjectHome>
<ProjectTypeGuids>{3AF33F2E-1136-4D97-BBB7-1795711AC8B8};{9092AA53-FB77-4645-B42D-1CCCA6BD08BD}</ProjectTypeGuids>
</PropertyGroup>
<!-- These property groups can be empty, but need to be defined for VS -->
<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Debug' ">
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Release' ">
</PropertyGroup>
<Import Project="My.Build.targets" />
<!-- Define empty standard MSBuild targets, since this project doesn't have them. Doing it this way allows My.Build.targets to also be used in a project that does define them. -->
<Target Name="Build" />
<Target Name="ReBuild" />
<Target Name="Clean" />
<!-- NOTE: a target named "CoreCompile" is needed for VS to display the Build menu item. -->
<Target Name="CoreCompile" />
<!-- Files shown in Visual Studio - adding and removing these in the UI works as expected -->
<ItemGroup>
<Content Include="myfile..." />
</ItemGroup>
</Project>
Note that it's not a C# project or C++ project or any other common type of project - VS treats its as a Node.js project due to the ProjectTypeGuids, but if I can get it working some other way, I'd be happy to.
I want to create a Visual Studio project that would allow me to see a bunch of JavaScript and other files and edit them as normal, but would also have a build step that can run any custom commands I want (currently some npm commands, possibly more later). Basically I want 3 features combined:
Be able to browse and edit files just like for any VS project (C#, C++, etc.)
Be able to run a custom build step by selecting "Build" in Visual Studio (including building the whole solution).
Be able to run that same custom build step from the command line (MSBuild).
Using a "shared project" (.shproj) allows me to easily see and edit the files, but there is no Build item in the context menu, even if I manually add a Build target:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="15.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup Label="Globals">
<ProjectGuid>...</ProjectGuid>
</PropertyGroup>
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\$(MSBuildToolsVersion)\Microsoft.Common.props" Condition="Exists('$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\$(MSBuildToolsVersion)\Microsoft.Common.props')" />
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)\CodeSharing\Microsoft.CodeSharing.Common.Default.props" />
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)\CodeSharing\Microsoft.CodeSharing.Common.props" />
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)\CodeSharing\Microsoft.CodeSharing.CSharp.targets" />
<Import Project="MyItems.projitems" Label="Shared" />
<PropertyGroup>
<Configuration>Debug</Configuration>
<Platform>Any CPU</Platform>
</PropertyGroup>
<Target Name="Build">
<Exec Command="ECHO My custom build!" />
</Target>
</Project>
I've also tried using a stripped-down VC++ project (since I don't actually want to run the C++ compiler) and this allows a build to be run from VS, but opening the project logs warnings like error MSB4057: The target "GetProjectDirectories" does not exist in the project. and trying to add files to fails with that error or similar ones.
There must be an easier way to do this!
From your current description, I think you want to create a js project in VS IDE.
However, VS IDE has the node js project template by default. And you should install the workload Node.js development under VS_Installer so that you can use it.
After that, you can create such project.
1) Adding js files or other files by right-click on the project-->Add-->Existing Item so that you can modify the files on VS IDE.
2) If you want to execute a custom build step that does not break the whole build, you should make the custom target depends on the default build.
You can use this:
<Target Name="CustomStep" AfterTargets="Build">
<Exec Command="ECHO My custom build!" />
</Target>
or
<Target Name="CustomStep" BeforeTargets="Build">
<Exec Command="ECHO My custom build!" />
</Target>
Note: If you use
<Target Name="Build">
<Exec Command="ECHO My custom build!" />
</Target>
It will overwrite the system build process and instead, run the command, which breaks the whole default build.
3) If you want to execute the custom build on msbuild command, you should specify the name of the custom target:
msbuild xxx\xxx.proj -t: CustomStep(the name of the custom target)
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Besides, if you still want to use C++ project template, you could create a empty c++ project which does not contain any clcompile files and then do the same steps.
If you do not want to use C++ compiler, you should only remove any xml node on the vcxproj file like these:
<ClCompile Include="xxx.cpp" />
<ClInclude Include="xxx.h" />
When you use the empty C++ project, you do not have to worry about that.
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Update 1
If you want to build this project on a build sever without VS IDE, I suggest you could install Build Tool for VS2019 which is an independent, lightweight build command line(It is equivalent to dotnet cli).
Build Tool for VS2019
Under All Downloads-->Tools for Visual Studio 2019--> Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019
Then, you have to install the related build workload such as Node.js Build tools and then we can use the command line to build node.js project on build sever.
The entire installation process is fast.
Inspired by Perry Qian-MSFT's answer, I managed to strip down a Node.js project to the bare minimum that I needed to get Visual Studio to load and build it, but without referencing any external files.
The main trick was VS needs a target named "CoreCompile" to be defined to show the Build menu item! (It also needs a "Build" target, but that one is more obvious.)
My project now looks like this:
<Project DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" ToolsVersion="4.0">
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\$(MSBuildToolsVersion)\Microsoft.Common.props" Condition="Exists('$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\$(MSBuildToolsVersion)\Microsoft.Common.props')" />
<PropertyGroup>
<Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
<SchemaVersion>2.0</SchemaVersion>
<ProjectGuid>(some guid)</ProjectGuid>
<ProjectHome>.</ProjectHome>
<ProjectTypeGuids>{3AF33F2E-1136-4D97-BBB7-1795711AC8B8};{9092AA53-FB77-4645-B42D-1CCCA6BD08BD}</ProjectTypeGuids>
</PropertyGroup>
<!-- These property groups can be empty, but need to be defined for VS -->
<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Debug' ">
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Release' ">
</PropertyGroup>
<Import Project="My.Build.targets" />
<!-- Define empty standard MSBuild targets, since this project doesn't have them. Doing it this way allows My.Build.targets to also be used in a project that does define them. -->
<Target Name="Build" />
<Target Name="ReBuild" />
<Target Name="Clean" />
<!-- NOTE: a target named "CoreCompile" is needed for VS to display the Build menu item. -->
<Target Name="CoreCompile" />
<!-- Files shown in Visual Studio - adding and removing these in the UI works as expected -->
<ItemGroup>
<Content Include="myfile..." />
</ItemGroup>
</Project>
And My.Build.targets looks like this:
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<Target Name="MyBuild" AfterTargets="Build">(build steps)</Target>
<Target Name="MyReBuild" AfterTargets="ReBuild">(re-build steps)</Target>
<Target Name="MyClean" AfterTargets="Clean">(clean steps)</Target>
<!-- This target is needed just to suppress "warning NU1503: Skipping restore for project '...'. The project file may be invalid or missing targets
required for restore." -->
<Target Name="_IsProjectRestoreSupported" Returns="#(_ValidProjectsForRestore)">
<ItemGroup>
<_ValidProjectsForRestore Include="$(MSBuildProjectFullPath)" />
</ItemGroup>
</Target>
</Project>
I have a c++ project created in Visual Studio 2017 community edition and I have opened and "converted" it with Visual Studio 2019 community edition.
The project folder contains:
Main.sln
Main/Main.vcxproj
Main/Main.vcxproj.filters
Main/Main.vcxproj.user
According to Winmerge, the conversion only affected two values within Main/Main.vcxproj:
<WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>10.0.17134.0</WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>
...
<PlatformToolset>v141</PlatformToolset>
changed to
<WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>10.0</WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>
...
<PlatformToolset>v142</PlatformToolset>
What options exist for maintaining one copy of most or all of these project files for both, VS2017 and VS2019?
Also, I would like to know:
Is there support for conditionals within .vcxproj or .sln?
Is there a way to explicitly point to a .vcxproj in one folder path and
*.vcxproj.filters and *.vcxproj.user in another?
Thanks!
Hopefully, this will help someone later.
MSBuild supports conditionals defined within the .vcxproj files that can key off of the available macros. I also found that values can be replaced by being set again further down in the file.
This example talks about checking and setting the VisualStudioVersion macro.
The solutions I found use the DefaultPlatformToolset macro, which is v141 for VS2017 and v142 for VS2019.
There are two ways that Main.vcxproj could use this in a conditional:
1) Use the Choose, When, and Otherwise tags around PropertyGroups containing the necessary values:
<Choose>
<When Condition="'$(DefaultPlatformToolset)'=='v141'">
<PropertyGroup Label="Globals">
<WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>10.0.17134.0</WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup Label="Configuration">
<PlatformToolset>v141</PlatformToolset>
</PropertyGroup>
</When>
<When Condition="'$(DefaultPlatformToolset)'=='v142'">
<PropertyGroup Label="Globals">
<WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>10.0</WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup Label="Configuration">
<PlatformToolset>v142</PlatformToolset>
</PropertyGroup>
</When>
<Otherwise>
<PropertyGroup Label="Globals">
<WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>$(DefaultWindowsSDKVersion)</WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup Label="Configuration">
<PlatformToolset>$(DefaultPlatformToolset)</PlatformToolset>
</PropertyGroup>
</Otherwise>
</Choose>
2) Set the Conditional property of the PropertyGroups:
<PropertyGroup Label="Globals">
<WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>$(DefaultWindowsSDKVersion)</WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(DefaultPlatformToolset)'=='v141'" Label="Globals">
<WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>10.0.17134.0</WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(DefaultPlatformToolset)'=='v142'" Label="Globals">
<WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>10.0</WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
Another approach may be to use a .sln file per Visual Studio version and base conditionals on the $(SolutionFileName) macro.
<Choose>
<When Condition="'$(SolutionFileName)'=='Main_VS2017.sln'">
...
</When>
<When Condition="'$(SolutionFileName)'=='Main_VS2019.sln'">
...
</When>
</Choose>
I've used the solution from http://www.markusweimer.com/2016/03/14/visual-c++/ hust converted it to 2015 and 2019.
<!--
Switch the PlatformToolset based on the Visual Studio Version
-->
<PropertyGroup>
<!-- Assume Visual Studio 2015 / 14.0 as the default -->
<VisualStudioVersion Condition="'$(VisualStudioVersion)' == ''">14.0</VisualStudioVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
<!-- Visual Studio 2019 (16.0) -->
<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(VisualStudioVersion)' == '16.0'">
<ConfigurationType>DynamicLibrary</ConfigurationType>
<UseOfMfc>false</UseOfMfc>
<CharacterSet>MultiByte</CharacterSet>
<PlatformToolset>v142</PlatformToolset>
</PropertyGroup>
<!-- Visual Studio 2015 (14.0) -->
<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(VisualStudioVersion)' == '14.0'">
<ConfigurationType>DynamicLibrary</ConfigurationType>
<UseOfMfc>false</UseOfMfc>
<CharacterSet>MultiByte</CharacterSet>
<PlatformToolset>v140</PlatformToolset>
</PropertyGroup>
<!--
End of: Switch the PlatformToolset based on the Visual Studio Version
-->
Works like a charm...
This is basically a follow up question to:
Using Visual Studio project properties effectively for multiple projects and configurations
Our library's target name is currently in this format:
$(ProjectName)-$(PlatformToolset)-$(PlatformShortName)-$(Configuration)
We'd like to add information about the runtime library used by the project to the target name, I tried adding $(RuntimeLibrary), but that doesn't seem to be set. Is there any other way to get the runtime library at the time the target name is resolved?
Thanks,
John.
With this property sheet you can do this. Import it in your property sheet and you will be able to access the RuntimeLibrary this way: $(RuntimeLibrary)
Yes!!! This will work in your propertie sheet =^.~=
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup>
<_IsDebug>$([System.Convert]::ToString($([System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex]::IsMatch($(Configuration),'[Dd]ebug'))))</_IsDebug>
<_ItemDefinitionGroupRegex><![CDATA[<ItemDefinitionGroup Condition=".*']]>$(Configuration)\|$(Platform)<![CDATA['">((?:.*\n)*?.*)</ItemDefinitionGroup>]]></_ItemDefinitionGroupRegex>
<_RuntimeLibraryRegex><![CDATA[(?:.*\n)*?.*<RuntimeLibrary>(.*)</RuntimeLibrary>(?:.*\n)*?.*]]></_RuntimeLibraryRegex>
<_HasRuntimeLibrary>$([System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex]::IsMatch($([System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex]::Match($([System.IO.File]::ReadAllText($(ProjectPath))), $(_ItemDefinitionGroupRegex)).Result('$1')), $(_RuntimeLibraryRegex)))</_HasRuntimeLibrary>
<!--
Fix incremental build (Different results when running msbuild within Visual Studio or from console).
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/677499/different-results-when-running-msbuild-within-visual-studio-or-from-console
-->
<DisableFastUpToDateCheck>true</DisableFastUpToDateCheck>
</PropertyGroup>
<Choose>
<When Condition="$([System.Convert]::ToBoolean($(_HasRuntimeLibrary)))">
<!-- Extract runtime library from project file. -->
<PropertyGroup Label="UserMacros">
<_RuntimeLibrary>$([System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex]::Match($([System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex]::Match($([System.IO.File]::ReadAllText($(ProjectPath))), $(_ItemDefinitionGroupRegex)).Result('$1')), $(_RuntimeLibraryRegex)).Result('$1'))</_RuntimeLibrary>
</PropertyGroup>
</When>
<Otherwise>
<!-- Set default runtime library -->
<PropertyGroup Label="UserMacros">
<_RuntimeLibrary Condition=" '$(_IsDebug)' == 'True' ">MultiThreadedDebugDLL</_RuntimeLibrary>
<_RuntimeLibrary Condition=" '$(_IsDebug)' == 'False' ">MultiThreadedDLL</_RuntimeLibrary>
</PropertyGroup>
</Otherwise>
</Choose>
<PropertyGroup Label="UserMacros">
<IsDebug>$(_IsDebug)</IsDebug>
<ConfigType Condition=" '$(IsDebug)' == 'True' ">Debug</ConfigType>
<ConfigType Condition=" '$(IsDebug)' == 'False' ">Release</ConfigType>
<Architecture Condition=" '$(Platform)' == 'Win32' ">x86</Architecture>
<Architecture Condition=" '$(Platform)' == 'x64' ">x64</Architecture>
<Toolset Condition=" '$(PlatformToolset)' == 'v110' ">msvc.110</Toolset>
<RuntimeLibrary>$(_RuntimeLibrary)</RuntimeLibrary>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<BuildMacro Include="IsDebug">
<Value>$(IsDebug)</Value>
</BuildMacro>
<BuildMacro Include="Toolset">
<Value>$(Toolset)</Value>
</BuildMacro>
<BuildMacro Include="Architecture">
<Value>$(Architecture)</Value>
</BuildMacro>
<BuildMacro Include="RuntimeLibrary">
<Value>$(RuntimeLibrary)</Value>
</BuildMacro>
<BuildMacro Include="ConfigType">
<Value>$(ConfigType)</Value>
</BuildMacro>
</ItemGroup>
</Project>
I am working with Visual Studio 2010. I have directed project output to a specific folder which will contain all the DLLs and EXEs when built. However when I clean the solution, the folder is not getting cleaned, and the DLLs are still present in it.
Can anyone tell me how to handle the clean solution command to clear out the folders I want to clean? I tried working with MSBuild and handling the BeforeClean and AfterClean targets, but it did not provide the desired result.
The answer from Sergio should work but I think it could be cleaner to override the BeforeClean/AfterClean targets. These are hooks into the build/clean process provided by microsoft. When you do a clean, VS do call the targets : BeforeClean;Clean;AfterClean and by default the first and the last do nothing.
In one of your existing .csproj file you can add the following :
<Target Name="BeforeClean">
<!-- DO YOUR STUFF HERE -->
</Target>
You can add to your VS .sln file special target named let's say BuildCustomAction.csproj:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="3.5" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup>
<Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
<Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">AnyCPU</Platform>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<CleanOutCatalogFiles Include="..\..\bin\$(Configuration)\**\*.dll">
<Visible>false</Visible>
</CleanOutCatalogFiles>
<CleanOutCatalogFiles Include="..\..\bin\$(Configuration)\**\*.exe">
<Visible>false</Visible>
</CleanOutCatalogFiles>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="Build">
</Target>
<Target Name="Rebuild"
DependsOnTargets="Clean;Build">
</Target>
<Target Name="Clean"
Condition="'#(CleanOutCatalogFiles)'!=''">
<Message Text="Cleaning Output Dlls and EXEs" Importance="high" />
<Delete Files="#(CleanOutCatalogFiles)" />
</Target>
</Project>
Place it everywhere you want and specify relative path to the output catalog for your binaries. Add in VS this project as existing. That's all. With this you can do own custom actions for three common actions in VS: Build, Rebuild, Clean.
There exists more complex way to customize build process using CustomBeforeMicrosoftCommonTargets and CustomAfterMicrosoftCommonTargets but it requires to be very good in MSBuild.
Hope this helps.