Is there a way for a program to detect if it was called by MSBuild or not?

Question

I'm looking in the environment but I can't see anything that I could use. Any ideas?

I'm trying to submit a patch for in Waf a bug that only appears when running the build under MSBuild (...yes I know, it sounds crazy but we're driving our Teamcity server using MSBuild).

Answer 1

Whilst I can't tell you exactly how to do it, I know you can do this.

You should look at functionality to find your parent process and then it's executable name to determine if it's MSBuild.exe or not.

Hope that helps to at least point you in the right direction.