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Building other sln (to build references)

Hi,

We have a quite a big test/automation frameworkd which is used be testers to
write their tests.

Right now all of the framework is built by seprate solution and tests (those
using the framework) refer to the binaries.

What it requirs peopl is that they have to keep two vs.net opened one for
framework and one for tests and rebuild framework if there was any change in
framework.

rather i add all framework .csproj to test's sln is there a way i can add
references to framework sln file for it to build.

Thanks,
Sajjad
May 19 '06 #1
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Hi Sajjad,

Thank you for posting.

From your description, you're going to do some automation build task for
your multiple VS 2005 solutions, correct? If the concerns you mentioned is
that you have to interactively open two VS IDE and build the separate
solutions individually, I think you can consider use the VS IDE's
"devenv.exe" with command line option to build the solutions in a batch or
script file.

#Devenv Command Line Switches
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xee0c8y7.aspx

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Community Support
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May 19 '06 #2
i can use batch file with msbuild as well (just call it twice)
my question was is there a way i could avoid having a batch file.

Is there a way i could reference another project file, rather including it.
beacuse if i include it then users see big list of project.

Also user dont need to build it every time, its just part of dependencies to
be build
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Hi Sajjad,

Thank you for posting.

From your description, you're going to do some automation build task for
your multiple VS 2005 solutions, correct? If the concerns you mentioned is
that you have to interactively open two VS IDE and build the separate
solutions individually, I think you can consider use the VS IDE's
"devenv.exe" with command line option to build the solutions in a batch or
script file.

#Devenv Command Line Switches
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xee0c8y7.aspx

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Community Support
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May 19 '06 #3
Thanks for your response Sajjad,

I'm afraid so far there is not cross-solution project reference support in
VS 2005, we can only make project reference within the same solution.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
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May 22 '06 #4
I dig it little more and found out that there is an elment <msbuild> which
allows building other project (without importing)

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Thanks for your response Sajjad,

I'm afraid so far there is not cross-solution project reference support in
VS 2005, we can only make project reference within the same solution.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Community Support
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Jun 7 '06 #5
Thanks for your followup Sajjad,

I think this is a good idea and use commandline build tool will recommended
for large and complex structured solution.

Thanks for sharing this with us.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
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