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I have a post build event which is writing to a text file. It is working fine when I am building the project from Visual Studio. But when I am using msbuild.exe the Post build event is not writing to the file. I am using msbuild with following parameters:
msbuild.exe TestProj.Web.csproj /p:Configuration=Release /p:OutDir=C:\TestProj\bin\ /p:WebProjectOutputDir=C:\TestProj\ /p:DebugSymbols=false /p:DebugType=None
The post build event looks like:
<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(BUILD_NUMBER)'==''">
<COMPUTERNAME>None</COMPUTERNAME>
<BRANCH>None</BRANCH>
<BUILD_NUMBER>None</BUILD_NUMBER>
</PropertyGroup>
<Target Name="AfterBuild">
<WriteLinesToFile File="$(ProjectDir)$(OutputPath)\VersionInfo.txt" Overwrite="true" Lines="Project
Created On $(COMPUTERNAME)
Branch is $(BRANCH)
Version Is $(BUILD_NUMBER)" />
</Target>
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I have got it fixed by changing the Task to
<WriteLinesToFile File="$(OutDir)\VersionInfo.txt" ...... />
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