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I've been experimenting with using build events to start and stop Windows service that are being built in my project. However for the pre & post builds fail with an error level 255. I've tried catching this with the pre-build with no luck.
Pre-build
if "$(ConfigurationName)" == "Debug"
(
net stop myService
if errorlevel 2
if errorlevel 255
:exit
:exit
)
Post-build
if "$(ConfigurationName)" == "Release"
(
copy $(TargetDir) C:\Media\Bin\$(ProjectName)
if errorlevel 1 BuildEventFailed
:BuildEventFailed
mkdir C:\Media\Bin\$(ProjectName)
copy $(TargetDir) C:\Media\Bin\$(ProjectName)
)
else if "$(ConfigurationName)" == "Debug"
(
net start myService
)
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MSBuild is the build engine that Visual Studio uses to process your project file when it performs a build. A build event in the IDE results in an MSBuild target in the project file. You can use any MSBuild property that is available in the target in your project file (for example, $(OutDir) or $(Configuration) ) .
A build event is a command that MSBuild performs at a particular stage in the build process. The pre-build event occurs before the build starts; the pre-link event occurs before the link step starts; and the post-build event occurs after the build successfully ends.
PreBuild and PostBuild aren't only used for hiding or unhiding pages. The main difference really is that PreBuild fires before any peoplecode code event on all the rows and fields in the component such as FieldDefault and RowInit. PostBuild runs after that.
Pre/Post build events are useful when we wish to perform some operation before/after a project is built. These operations are nothing but the Shell commands being used from the command line. A build event can be formed using a single, multiple, or conditional commands.
The following weblog by Joel Varty has a solution which I use: Use Build Events to rebuild a Windows Service without having to manually stop/start it
The only problem is when you do a rebuild. Visual Studio cleans up the files before the pre-build event fires. This then off course fails because the service is still running. But regular builds work great. Hope this helps.
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Try using the opening parenthese on the first line of your pre-build code
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