I have Two Build agent named X and Y in TFS controller.
But when i launched the Build :
1) if it's taken by Agent X the build failed and there is alaways message that missing "The type or namespace name 'GalaSoft' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?"
2) if it's taken by Agent Y the Build Sucess and theres is no issue.
Can you explain what's the probleme.
Check how you referenced the files:
If you referenced the file as an absolute path, then you need to copy the files to the specific location on agent machine. In this case you can compare the build logs between Agent X and Agent Y to find the differences, then debug it.
So, generally we recommend referencing a file as a relative path in the project file (.csproj).
To add a relative reference in a separate directory, such as C:\tfs_get\Sources\assembly\abc.dll, do the following:
Add the reference in Visual Studio by right clicking the project in
Solution Explorer and selecting Add Reference.
Find the *.csproj where this reference exist and open it in a text
editor. Lets say your .csproj location is c:\tfs_get\sources\myfolder\myproject\myproj.csproj
Edit the < HintPath > to be equal to ..\..\assembly\abc.dll
This build will work properly with the assumption that the folders ( assembly, myfolder) under the sources folder exist in TFS.
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How to create build definition for multiple solutions that have dependency?
Background here:
There are two solutions
Solution A is class library contains an object class 'ClassA'
Solution B is console program that use 'ClassA' by add dll reference generated by solution A.
I would like to server build both solutions using one TFS 2017 build definition.
It raise out error:
Main\Source\SolutionB\Program.cs (13, 13)
Main\Source\SolutionB\SolutionB\Program.cs(13,13): Error CS0246:
The type or namespace name 'SolutionA' could not be found (are you
missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
How to config the build definition that SolutionB would know to use the dll generated from the build of SolutionA?
You should build your first project that will be used at second project as dll and than copy files to build artifacts; than publish your dlls to specific folder that you referenced in your second project and finally build your second project.
You can check this image that with similiar process, just in below image it is publishing artifacts to three diffrent location, in your case it should be one publish task.
This is one of the simple way; but if you use the project A for some other projects too you may want to use NuGet packages. I am going to describe this as solution 2.
Solution 2: You should create a Nuget packages by the artifacts of Project A. You can host your Nuget packages in custom source folder. Add your first project's package to your project as a reference. You don't need to do something extra just add a nuget restore task to your build definition. If you want, you can publish your first project as a nuget package during the build definiton. Please check how to restore and install neuget packages by build definiton.
I have F# project which I want to build with command line (to use that later in FAKE config).
The problem is that MSBuild fails to resolve assembly dependencies when I use it on the project file directly. While it goes fine when I use solution file with this single project included.
I really have run out of ideas. The solution file seems to not contain any critical information.
Another weird thing is that VSCode also fails to resolve one of those assemblies. I hope that when I fix MSBuild config I may be will able to see what's wrong with VSCode.
Command line:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\Bin\msbuild.exe" FSharpWeb1\FSharpWeb1.fsproj /t:rebuild
Error message:
C:\work\MNP\testMSBuild1\FSharpWebApi\FSharpWeb1\FSharpWeb1.fsproj(173,5): error MSB4062: The "MSBuild.ExtensionPack.FileSystem.File" task could not be loaded from the assembly C:\work\MNP\testMSBuild1\FSharpWebApi\FSharpWeb1\*Undefined*\packages\MSBuild.Extension.Pack.1.3.0\tools\net40\MSBuild.ExtensionPack.dll. Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\work\MNP\testMSBuild1\FSharpWebApi\FSharpWeb1\*Undefined*\packages\MSBuild.Extension.Pack.1.3.0\tools\net40\MSBuild.ExtensionPack.dll' or one of its dependencies. The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. Confirm that the <UsingTask> declaration is correct, that the assembly and all its dependencies are available, and that the task contains a public class that implements Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITask.Done Building Project "C:\work\MNP\testMSBuild1\FSharpWebApi\FSharpWeb1\FSharpWeb1.fsproj" (rebuild target(s)) -- FAILED.
I've pushed the minimal demo to github: https://github.com/alehro/testMSBuild.git
It's actually easy to reproduce independently. In VS 2015 Community edition create new project from F# Web Template named "Web Api 2.2" and then try to build it with MSBuild.
Another disturbing thing is that the minimal demo produces different errors from those I've seen yesterday. Also vscode complains on different items. If yesterday it could not resolve a couple of calls, now it complains on all of:
open System.Net.Http
open System.Web
open System.Web.Http
open System.Web.Routing
telling that neither of them is defined.
Reformatting my comments to a response now that it's verified it works:
Your FSharpWeb1.fsproj references MSBuild.ExtensionPack.FileSystem.File task from MSBuild.Extension.Pack, but the path specified in the <UsingTask> tag contains $(SolutionDir) property which is not defined when you run MSBuild outside of Visual Studio.
The error message you're getting shows that in the highlighted part of the path:
The "MSBuild.ExtensionPack.FileSystem.File" task could not be loaded from the assembly C:\work\MNP\testMSBuild1\FSharpWebApi\FSharpWeb1\*Undefined*\packages\MSBuild.Extension.Pack.1.3.0\tools\net40\MSBuild.ExtensionPack.dll.
This can be remedied by conditionally setting the relative path when the property is not set by VS:
<SolutionDir Condition="$(SolutionDir) == '' Or $(SolutionDir) == '*Undefined*'">..\</SolutionDir>
(original response for this solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33782131/1659828)
One more thing I mentioned in the comments is that this solution assumes you already have the necessary dependencies downloaded in the packages folder. Visual Studio does that automatically by restoring NuGet packages before build, but when you build in another context, you have to make sure the packages are restored, otherwise the build will keep failing.
My build cannot pick up some of the projects in my application.
They are stored in their own projects in TFS source control.
I group them together in the Edit Build workspace;
These are the mappings:
The Build Agent folder does not let me simply put $(SourceDir). What is the impact of appending a folder name at the end as above?
How do I get the Build Agent to pick up the projects from the correct folder locations?
Currently I get these error messages;
8 error(s), 3 warning(s)
$/STAS/Timesheet/Timesheet/Timesheet.sln - 8 error(s), 3 warning(s), View Log File
C:\Builds\4\STAS\Timesheet\Sources\Timesheet\Timesheet.sln.metaproj: The project file "C:\Builds\4\STAS\Timesheet\Sources\Timesheet\..\..\..\..\StandardClassLibrary\StandardClassLibrary\StandardClassLibrary.csproj" was not found.
C:\Builds\4\STAS\Timesheet\Sources\Timesheet\Timesheet.sln.metaproj: The project file "C:\Builds\4\STAS\Timesheet\Sources\Timesheet\..\..\..\EmailMessageRecord\EmailMessageRecord\EmailMessageRecord.csproj" was not found.
This is exactly how the feature is meant to be used. The $(Sourcedir) macro is replaced by the Build Agent path (as configured on the Build Agent):
Whichever path is configured here is placed into $(Sourcedir) and whatever you additionally configure in the mapping is used to create the final destination.
So what happens is that these solutions will all be downloaded to their own sub directory under the build working directory. The only think you'll need to look out for is that relative paths between folders in source control or in your local mapping need to match up with the destination folder structure you choose int he build definition's workspace mapping.
I have TFS 2010 and for one of the team project I have created the build definition (used default build template) and added the solution of one of the project. But when try to create build getting the following error:
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Common.targets
(902): The command "if Debug == Debug copy
"C:\Builds\14\\\Sources\ServerObjects..\SharedInterfaces\bin\debug*.dll"
"C:\Builds\14\\\Sources\ServerObjects..\ServerObjects\bin\debug"" exited with
code 1.
I think you maybe has wrong folder structure on the source control, see my answer on similar question here
teambuilding and deploying a dll (e.g. wpftoolkit.extended.dll)
TeamBuild overrides the output folder so the bin\debug (or bin\release) folder won't exist. It collates the output into Binaries.
For your custom build step use the obj folder instead of bin as that'll be the same under both TeamBuild and the local machine build.
I am trying to call TF get command via Team Build script. I am getting the following error
Unable to determine the workspace.
Folks over the internet tell that this error is because Team Build cannot find the workspace because it is being called from a directory which is not part of the workspace.
The solution presented is to specify the working directory. I do so. The mappings are ok in Build Definition path as well as in the workspace. But now i get the following error:
Could not find cmd.exe in the current
directory . The directory name is
invalid.
Kindly help.
Thanks
Solved the problem. I added one more binding in my build Definition Workspace Section and referenced files to get/checkin/checkout with the help of variable $(MSBuildSourceDirectory). Meanwhile I ensured that $(SourceDir) is used to specify mapping in the workspace section of my Build Definiton dialog.
(source: geekswithblogs.net)
At the same time i encountered 260-character path limit, so i modified the output directory in build path as described here
(source: geekswithblogs.net)