Build on Marko Apfel

Code Contracts: For unit test a manual rebuild is needed for toggeling “runtime checking”

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 01:19:00 +0200

Toggeling the checkbox Perform Runtime Contract Checking lets run the next application start with the new set option. But for unit test an explicit new build will apply the option for the next run.

Suppressing Add-in-registration task during build process

Mon, 16 May 2011 07:17:00 +0200

If you develop ArcGIS Add-ins with Visual Studio under limited permissions you get during the build process an error, that the stuff could not be registered.

Normally its enough to run one times this build as an admin. Then all needed information are set and also taken for users with limited access.

MSBuild Exec task: using quotes in WorkingDirectory does not work

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:01:00 +0100

For a general applicability I tried to specify the WorkingDirectory attribute in a quoted manner:

<WorkingDir>&quot;$(SolutionRoot)\EsriDE.Commons\tools\EsriDE\&quot;</WorkingDir>

<DoubleQuotes>%22</DoubleQuotes>
<WorkingDir>$(DoubleQuotes)$(SolutionRoot)\EsriDE.Commons\tools\EsriDE\$(DoubleQuotes)</WorkingDir>

The Exec task self is

<Exec
 WorkingDirectory="$(WorkingDir)"
 Command="$(ExtractComCategories) $(InputDirectoryArg) $(FilterArg) $(SeparationArg) $(OutputDirectoryArg) $(OutputFileArg) $(OutputFormatArg)" />

Every variant throws during building the exception MSB6003 (The directory name is invalid):

Stopping a build at the TFS

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:54:00 +0100

Open a “visual studio command prompt” and try:

tfsbuild stop https://*****:8143 RXXXXX_Sourcecode Gen_2.6_branch_test_20080827.1

Visual Studio: Building parts of a solution

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:10:00 +0100

Often in large solutions I had the problem that a couple of little chances needs building some projects. Unfortunately Visual Studio tends to build more projects than needed.

Formerly I used the configuration manager to deactivate unused projects. This is a overhead which sucks.

Post-build event with folders which contains spaces

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:47:00 +0200

If you want to use a Post-build event with folders which contains a space often you get an error like:

The system cannot find the file specified.

c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Microsoft.Common.targets(3397,13):
error MSB3073: The command
"COPY C:\Projekte\_Learning By Doing\EsriDE.QA.StyleCop\bin\Debug\EsriDE.QA.StyleCop.dll
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft StyleCop 4.3""
exited with code 1.

In my case I used the macro $(TargetPath) in following line which contains indirectly the spaces in _Learning By Doing:

HTML Help Compiler Error HHC3004

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:28:00 +0100

Today i had an error by building my sandcastle documentation project.

After compiling during opening the output instead my chm-file in the help viewer the internet explorer pops up with an error message that the destination could not be found. So i took a look in the log of the compile process and there was some warnings of the following type listed: