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Bassie
Bassie

Reputation: 10400

Visual Studio Hangs After Adding Post-Build-Event

I am following this tutorial which explains how to attached post-build events to a project.

This is my .bat file (tried with and without the D: remd out): 

CMD
ECHO parameter=%1
CD %1
rem D:
COPY WpfFileDeleter.exe temp.exe
"..\..\ILMerge.exe" /out:"WpfFileDeleter.exe" "temp.exe" "Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.dll" "Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.ExtendedLinguisticServices.dll" "Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Sensors.dll" "Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Shell.dll" "Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.ShellExtensions.dll"
DEL temp.exe

And I also added this ILMerge.exe.config as per the tutorial (I was getting the Unresolved assembly reference not allowed error):

<configuration>
    <startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">
        <requiredRuntime safemode="true" imageVersion="v4.0.30319" version="v4.0.30319"/>
    </startup>
</configuration>

But when I build my project in VS it just hangs with this message in Output:

1>------ Rebuild All started: Project: WpfFileDeleter, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------

I can see that some files have been copied to bin/debug, such as the .dlls I specified and temp.exe, but any WpfFileDeleter.exes cannot be run properly as it has not been merged properly.

My question is How can I debug this issue? Is there some way of outputting the results of ILMerge or the build process so that I can see where it is going wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 325

Answers (1)

Bassie
Bassie

Reputation: 10400

I was able to resolve this by specifying the targetFramework when calling ILMerge in the batch file: 

"..\..\ILMerge.exe" /out:"WpfFileDeleter.exe" /targetPlatform:"v4" "temp.exe" "Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.dll" "Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.ExtendedLinguisticServices.dll" "Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Sensors.dll" "Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Shell.dll" "Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.ShellExtensions.dll"

Upvotes: 1

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