I have one solution with five projects and one solution folder. All project has a reference to project inside solution folder. When I clean solution and build, projects in solution folder does not build. I need to build project in solution folder before I build the solution.
How can I fix this problem?
It sounds like a project is dependent on another project in your solution (not uncommon).
You can change the order that your projects build in Visual Studio so that the dependency tree is satisfied when building a solution.
If you right click on the solution in the Solution Explorer and choose 'Project Dependencies...' you will be able to tell Visual Studio which order to build your projects.
Related
My solution structure is like this:
WiX Installer: depends on Project A and B
Project A: depends on Project B
Project B: no dependencies
It is configured like that in the build dependencies. The displayed build order (right click on the solution -> project build order) is the correct one (Project B -> Project A -> Installer). But for some reason when i try to rebuild the whole solution thats not the order in which Visual Studio actually tries to build the projects. It always starts with Project A which of course then fails cause of the missing dependency of Project B.
If i manually build the projects in the right order everything works.
In my .sln file projects are listed like this:
Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "ProjectA", ProjectA\ProjectA.csproj", "{B80B7A8F-0576-41FA-BD3D-B3C6F5F8D6E7}"
EndProject
Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "ProjectB", "ProjectB\ProjectB.csproj", "{D127D2C1-0F13-41F1-B4A1-218BC53ABC40}"
EndProject
Project("{930C7802-8A8C-48F9-8165-68863BCCD9DD}") = "Installer", "Installer\Installer.wixproj", "{1D504782-E92A-4C60-9ADC-6067E7E301AA}"
ProjectSection(ProjectDependencies) = postProject
{B80B7A8F-0576-41FA-BD3D-B3C6F5F8D6E7} = {B80B7A8F-0576-41FA-BD3D-B3C6F5F8D6E7}
{D127D2C1-0F13-41F1-B4A1-218BC53ABC40} = {D127D2C1-0F13-41F1-B4A1-218BC53ABC40}
EndProjectSection
EndProject
Any idea what might cause this issue?
Usually, the build order is saved in the solution file(.sln file) like this:
So when you use this, you should build the whole solution with that file. But
However, in vs IDE, when you build A single project, it can follow the specified build order, but in msbuild command line, msbuild projectA.xxproj does not build B first and then build A according to the specified dependencies. This is also unique to vs ides, although the build dependencies are stored in xxx.sln rather than individual xxx.proj files.
Unless the entire solution(msbuild xxx.sln) is built in MSBuild Command Line, it will be built sequentially.
This is the situation that generally causes this difference.
But for some reason when i try to rebuild the whole solution thats not
the order in which Visual Studio actually tries to build the projects.
I wonder what you did caused this and if you build the whole solution(xxx.sln file), this issue will not happen. So I want to know which build format or what you did to your solution.
Since MSBuild cannot build wixproj file, so you should use VS IDE or devenv xxx.sln /build to build the whole solution.
Suggestion
As a suggestion, you could use Project Reference instead to specify build order which will set the order in every xxx.proj rather than xxx.sln file. This will be more reliable and safe.
1) Remove the build orders under Project Dependencies(Right-click on Solution)
2) Right-click on WIX project-->References-->Add Reference-->Projects-->Select Project A and Project B.
3) Right-click on Project A-->References-->Add Reference-->Project-->Project B.
In addition, if it does not help you, please share with us what you did to cause this issue and any steps which caused it so that it will help us troubleshoot your issue more quickly.
Update 1
Just hint from Eric, and thanks to him for sharing the solution and test result.
Solution
First, remove all the project dependencies and then re-add them, after that, it fixes the issue. It could be an issue to this project since it was migrated from old VS2010.
I had the same problem. I was able to build my solution in Visual Studio. But when building it on Azure DevOps Pipelines with MSBuild, it built them in the wrong order; with my WiX .wixproj project being built before one of its dependencies.
My .sln file looked like this:
What I did to solve the problem, was to manually add more dependencies to this file:
So my advice is to look in your .sln file and add additional dependencies that you think would make sense.
When I'm working with a VS project, when I want to build some files but not the others, I would go to Solution Explorer, right click on the files I don't want to build, Properties, and set Excluded from Build to "Yes". I find it cumbersome to do this for a dozen files. Is there a shortcut or a better way to do this? Thanks.
I am a newbie in Visual Studio and have my projects deployed on Visual Studio Online. How can I download the successful build files from Visual Studio Online to my machine. Because as far as I know, after successful completion of the build, we can only download logs as zip file.
I know it is a bit late to answer this question, but in case someone still looking for solution, I used this one:
When creating build definition, in "Build Defaults" pane selected "Copy build output to the following Source Control folder".
In textbox I typed "$/[Your project root]/Drops" where [Your project root] is the root name of your project base.
After that I can build with this definition and in "Drops" folder start appearing folders with build results.
I know this old but I just had this problem. Assuming you have a task of "Publish Artifacts". You can click on the result of a build and there will be an Artifacts tab that let you download the folder created in the publish artifacts task mentioned.
The following picture shows an exceprt of the projects within my solution. When I build the Midas.Server project, only the Apache.NMS.dll is copied to the Release folder. Any suggestions why? Or how to force it? :(
Whats the easiest way to copy a visual studio project between distinct solutions? can i just copy the folder containing the project data in windows explorer?
Yes, you can copy the project folder and just add it to the new solution. Also note, that you can have a single project in multiple solutions, if for instance you have a solution for each project and a global solutions for all the projects you have.