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An event to run scripts, macros or other actions before compilation.

Build events can be used to run scripts, macros, or other custom actions as a part of the compilation process.

Post-build events occur before compilation. These actions (if specified) are executed just before compilation.

How to specify build event - MSDN

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Why would a pre-build event failed with error code 3 in a TeamCity build?

I am using TeamCity for Continuous Integration. One of my projects in a solution is having a pre build event. It is working fine when I build the project locally. However In TeamCity, the build failed with error code 3. Pre build event is for…
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Visual Studio Online Pre-Build step failing

I'm using Visual Studio Online for CI. I have a Release build set up. One of my projects has a pre build step which should only be executed for Debug builds. if $(ConfigurationName) == Debug copy "$(ProjectDir)Config\web.$(Username).config"…
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How to stop compliation if a pre-build step fails in eclipse?

I'm working on eclipse envrioment that contains a lot of projects. On one of my project I'm holding several XML filse with an XML schema. I want that the compilation will not start or will fail if any xml file is inconsistent with the XML schema. I…
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Testing Pre-Built Command Event

Is there anyway I can test pre-built event command line, from visual studio command prompt or from any other tool? I have this event REM C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\SubWCRev.exe $(SolutionDir). $(SolutionDir)\mynamespace\Release.tmpl…
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Run Add-in from PrebuildEvent

I'm writing an VS 2008 add-in to synchronize Setup project Version with startup project assembly version. It works fine. But I was wondering if it was possible to call add-in from the Pre-build Event of my setup project. It works fine by command…
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Search and replace in *.aspx,*.ascx files when publishing a Webapplication

I'm attempting to replace a pattern in all my .aspx and .ascx file when I Publish my Webapplication. When I am running the application locally, I don't care about the replace. But as soon as I need to Publish the solution I need a sequence of…
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Detecting Pre-build/Post-build events

Is there any way to create a warning message if any Pre-build or Post-build event exists in project, so that another programmer takes into account the external operations while compiling the project.
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Pre-build event command line. Failing but not required

In visual studio i have set a command line event which works fine. net stop "my windows service" However this event can return a non zero response if the service isn't running. I would like visual studio to continue the build even if a non zero…
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Pre-Build event exiting with code -1 in vs2010

I have a simple batch script running the command line in the pre-build event is just C:\path\to\batch\script\PreBuildGenANTLR.bat The batch script contains @echo off pushd ..\..\Parser java -jar ..\ANTLR\antlr-3.5-complete.jar -o .ANTLR…
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Generating Qt resource file in pre-build event

I'm using Qt 4.8.4 and Visual Studio 2012. I have an app-resources folder full of pictures (skin, sounds) and in project's pre-build event I generate *.qrc resource file via running my own Python script. Command line: python…
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Writing more than one command in the Visual Studio 2010 pre-build events field when the commands are not batch files and contain macros

I want to execute more than one pre-build event in Visual Studio. But Visual Studio takes all the text in the pre-build events field and executes it as one single command line function, unless you were calling a bunch of batch files. In the case of…
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Multi-Line Visual Studio conditional prebuild event returns 255

I've been running a prebuild event every time I do a build. It works perfectly: "$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\..\..\..\Tools\SubWCRev\SubWCRev" "$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\..\..\.." "$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\Utilities\Revision\Revision.txt"…
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Validate an XML file as a build event

I was wondering if there was a way to validate XML files as part of a pre-build event, so that I can go back and fix the problem before the app starts up. I'm aware of (and use) code to validate XML files on application startup as part of…
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copy from solution directory and project directory in pre build event

I have checked this link: http://webproject.scottgu.com/VisualBasic/UserControls/UserControls.aspx regarding using usercontrols throughout various projects. But I dont get these part copy $(SolutionDir)\MyUserControlLibrary\*.ascx…
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How do I use this command in a pre build event in Visual Studio

I will be concise. The command FOR /F %i IN (C:\Version.txt) DO @set Version=%i works perfectly fine in cmd.exe to read the text of the file into a variable. but whenever I put that line into a prebuild event in Visual Studio it says Exited with…
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