building a setup project using MSBuild

Hello,

does anyone know how to build a visual studio 2005 setup project using msbuild (the ouput is msi file)

thanks.

Matt Wyckhouse
While we don't do this today, this is something that we have received numerous customer requests for (such as this forum post itself), and we will be working on it in a future release.

In the meantime, you will have to use devenv /build in order to build setup projects from the command line.

Hope this helps.

Faisal Mohamood

Program Manager | Visual Studio | MSBuild
Attila Hajdrik &#40;exMSFT&#41;
Hi,

MSBuild cannot build setup projects (.vdproj).

Please review the blog at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/anutthara/archive/2006/01/05/509606.aspx

Thanks,

Jay Shrestha

(jaysh@microsoft.com)
L. von Wyss

I tried to write a target that uses the Exec task with the DevEnv /build option and it just doesn't work..
JRHudnutt
Hi,

Did you write the target based on the sample from the link I provided - http://blogs.msdn.com/anutthara/archive/2006/01/05/509606.aspx. If not then you may want to take a look at that.

Thanks,

Jay
building a setup project using MSBuild