How to “get rid of” $(SolutionDir) when building Visual Studio project from outside Visual Studio

Question

I want to build a .vcxproj via MSBuild from outside Visual Studio. The problem is that there are many occurrences of $(SolutionDir) inside the .vcxproj file which apparently onl

Answer 1

You can set the variable by passing parameter arguments:

/p:SolutionDir=path

So, rather than editing the solution file, you can create a build script that sets up the environment and executes MSBuild accordingly, leaving the Visual Studio file as is for development work.