Overview

MsBuild commands are used to build software with Microsoft's MsBuild build tool. This is the tool used as the basis for builds in Visual Studio.

Default Post-Processing

MsBuild commands apply MsBuild post-processing to their output by default, in order to capture common warning and error messages. The processor searches for messages from both MSBuild itself and from commonly-used tasks (e.g. Csc).

Locating MsBuild

The MsBuild binary is located using the following algorithm:

• If the command's custom msbuild executable field is set, its value is used.
• If a property named msbuild.bin is defined, its value is used.
• Otherwise, msbuild is assumed to be in the PATH.

Note that your pulse™ server may locate MsBuild via resource auto-discovery and set up an appropriate resource for you. To make use of the discovered version of MsBuild add this resource as a requirement.