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 use a relative path.

I am not sure about Visual Studio 2010 as in the question, but it guaranteed works since Visual Studio 2012.

If the project folder is right under the solution folder then the relative path is ..\\.

This, by the way, can be combined with the parameter argument from Grant Thomas's answer.

..\