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I want to build my VS2010 .sln file (projects are .net 4.0) with msbuild from the command line. I expected this to work...
>C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/msbuild.exe application.sln
However I get this message:
"Project file contains ToolsVersion="4.0", which is not supported by this version of MSBuild. Treating the project as if it had ToolsVersion="3.5"."
The build continues but it can't find any of my references and fails.
I'm probably missing something obvious... any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
-dk
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At the command line, type MSBuild.exe <SolutionName>. sln , where <SolutionName> corresponds to the file name of the solution that contains the target that you want to execute. Specify the target after the -target: switch in the format <ProjectName>:<TargetName>.
Go to your folder with your solution sln file, and just type msbuild. It will automatically start building the sln files. If you use nuget packages, you will get errors about missing packages. You may have read somewhere that you only need to type “msbuild /t:restore”, but I think that it's only works for .
Microsoft Build Engine, or MSBuild, is a set of free and open-source build tools for managed code under the Common Language Infrastructure as well as native C and C++ code.
This article maybe helpful: http://blog.prabir.me/post/Downgrading-VS2010-solutions-to-VS2008.aspx
And it seems it's not targeting proper msbuild version (error comes from 3.5 msbuild ver), try to open the Visual Studio 2010 command prompt, go to the solution directory and run msbuild.exe SolutionName.sln
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That's odd. Does VS2010 work OK? If not is the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSBuild\ToolsVersions\4.0 missing? (Install bad.)
Verify the .sln version number at the top is 11.
Those are the only reasons I can think of.
Dan
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