msbuild -p:outputdir=c:\mydir being ignored

Question

I'm running msbuild from the command line with the following:

msbuild mysolution.sln -p:outputdir=c:\mydir 

When I run this, the outputdir is being ignored and the default specified in the csproj file is being used.

The MSDN doc for this tool says that I should be able to override the build directory using this parameter. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You should use OutputPath and more important you should use the right syntax :

msbuild mysolution.sln /p:OutputPath=c:\mydir