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DokutoMekki
DokutoMekki

Reputation: 491

Why does the selected build configuration not get applied to the project file?

This may be a noobish question but here I go anyway.

So in VS I have a project whose build configuration I changed from Debug|AnyCpu to Release|AnyCpu.

Now this all works good and fine and when I build the project via VS this configuration is also used in the build process.

however I am also using the msbuild.exe in order to build the project via command sometimes and the problem is no matter what I do I can not change the 

<Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>

element of the project via VS. So setting the build configuration does only seem to work for VS and I bascially have to manually add this in the project file so that the msbuild.exe uses the correct build configuration.

Any Idea how I can change it in VS so the change also alters the project file ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 133

Answers (1)

Alexey Shcherbak
Alexey Shcherbak

Reputation: 3454

You don't need to change it explicitly. This string is "default configuration" for msbuild and VS - if no $(Configuration) value specified - set it to Debug.

If you want to build release configuration using msbuild you may want to specify configuration property or platform architecture in command line explicitly:

msbuild.exe myProject.csproj /p:Configuration="Release" /p:Platform="Any CPU"

Upvotes: 1

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