Building C# project using jenkins

Question

First of all, im not sure if there is a specific forum thats more suitable for request about Jenkins, but I figured I just post it here.

So, I have this C# project, it right now requires Visual Studio 2015 to build and I would like to automate builds with Jenkins. This is the first time I'm using Jenkins and I was able to set it all up, it fetches the code from the gitlab repository, but right now there is no build action configured. For "fun" i tried to simply make it use a "windows batchfile" as build file and added echo test. Checking the console output it downloads the repository code and then tries to execute the batchfile, result is:

java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "cmd" (in directory "/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/Project"): java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory

This of course makes sense, but I wonder now, is there a way to build a C# project with jenkins on a debian server without resorting to mono or something? I know that people build C++ projects for windows with Jenkins on a linux root, so there has to be some sort of cross compiling possibilities.

If the Visual Studio 2015 is a dealbreaker I can also strap it down to VS13 or even below. Any help is greatly appreciated!

/EDIT

Its probably important to say that Mono is NOT an option. Im using features like WPF that are not available for Mono.

Answer 1

Use Jenkins' MSBuild plugin.

Jenkins.NET is a good blog about using Jenkins in a .NET environment. First post is here.