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yano
yano

Reputation: 4453

Does devenv.com work with extensions?

I am using this extension (https://github.com/ceztko/SolutionConfigurationName) to put solution output all in one folder. It is working splendidly on our development machines. (I modified the source to support VS2012 installation)

We are now trying to run a build using devenv.com, but it seems that the macros are not being evaluated properly --or rather, they are an empty string ""

Does anyone know if devenv.com plays nice with extensions? Or maybe the workflow for a headless build is different such that the extension is not getting triggered? It uses UpdateSolution_Begin to update the variables.

tia

Upvotes: 1

Views: 253

Answers (1)

Jason Malinowski
Jason Malinowski

Reputation: 18976

A headless build won't load that extension, and definitely won't go triggering solution events like that.

To be honest, this feels strongly like an XY problem. A solution build results in the MSBuild Configuration property being specified to each individual project, and I can't think of any scenario where you wouldn't simply be able to base a build customization on that property. For the Roslyn codebase itself we direct all OutDirs for all projects by simply having a single msbuild .targets file that defines the output path, and then we include that in all projects. Very clean, and doesn't require VS extensions to be installed, or even VS installed at all in order to do a build.

Upvotes: 2

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