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Colin Desmond
Colin Desmond

Reputation: 4854

MSBuild and BuildUri

I am trying to add a BuildStep to the AfterBuild target in MSBuild and I am using the following 

<Target Name="AfterCompile">    
    <ItemGroup>      
        <TestAssemblies Include="$(OutDir)\DataStoreUnitTests.dll" />   
    </ItemGroup>    

    <BuildStep      
        Name="Run unit Tests"
        TeamFoundationServerUrl="$(TeamFoundationServerUrl)"     
        BuildUri="$(BuildUri)"      
        Message="Running unit tests">      
        <Output TaskParameter="Id" PropertyName="StepId" />    
    </BuildStep>    

    <Gallio      
        Assemblies="@(TestAssemblies)"      
        ReportTypes="html"      
        ReportFileNameFormat="buildreport{0}{1}"      
        ReportOutputDirectory="." />    

    <BuildStep      
        TeamFoundationServerUrl="$(TeamFoundationServerUrl)"      
        BuildUri="$(BuildUri)"      
        Id="$(StepId)"      
        Message="Yay! All tests succeded!"      
        Status="Succeeded" />    
        <OnError ExecuteTargets="MarkBuildStepAsFailed" />  
    </Target>  

    <Target Name="MarkBuildStepAsFailed">    
        <BuildStep      
            TeamFoundationServerUrl="$(TeamFoundationServerUrl)"      
            BuildUri="$(BuildUri)"      
            Id="$(StepId)"      
            Message="Tests have failed. See test report in drop folder for details." 
            Status="Failed" />  
</Target>

And when I run it in MSBuild I get the following error:

error MSB4044: The "BuildStep" task was not given a value for the required parameter "BuildUri".

And I cannot see why, does anyone know?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3986

Answers (2)

Martin Woodward
Martin Woodward

Reputation: 11770

Are you running this target as part of a Team Build (on the build server) or as a Desktop build (i.e. locally)?

The BuildUri property is normally populated passed in to the build by the build agent when it is triggering a new team build. In your script the Uri is used to tell TFS what build detail to attach the build step to. If you are running a desktop build then this will be empty unless you pass the property in on the command line.

Upvotes: 4

Gavin Miller
Gavin Miller

Reputation: 43855

My thoughts are that $(BuildUri) is evaluating to nothing. Try doing a print statement to debug and target the line number that VS/MSBuild is giving as an error.

<Message Text="$(BuildUri)" />

MSBuild can be run from the command line (I find MSBuild to be easier to work with that way) with the following command:

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\%FrameWork_Version%\MSBuild /verbosity:n
%Solution or Project file%

To set $(BuildUri):

<Target Name="AfterCompile">    
    <PropertyGroup>
        <BuildUri>Build_Uri_Value</BuildUri >
    </PropertyGroup>

    <ItemGroup>
        ...

Information on BuildUri can be found here:

What is the BuildUri and where do i get it from when i'm just trying to get some source?

Upvotes: 4

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