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Building a msi Installer using MSbuild

I have a Dotnet Windows application built using visual studio 2015.

I am trying to automate the build using MSbuild and Jenkins. The output files are Setup.exe & MyAppSetup.msi.

I want to use MSbuild and the VS2015 solution file, without using the VS IDE. The Visual studio solution has 6 projects and all the projects should be built together to generate the .msi installer.

The setup.exe and .msi files are being built using the setup project file(.vdproj).

How do I build the same solution using MSBuild ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2736

Answers (1)

Andreas Calvo
Andreas Calvo

Reputation: 41

msbuild does not have support for setup projects.

To integrate with Jenkins, you will have to use devenv (VS IDE).

Note: starting VS 2013, vdproj support is provided by an add-in.

Find more information on the following blog: https://juristr.com/blog/2014/03/Jenkins-Build-Setup-Project/

Upvotes: 4

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