How can one determine if a csproj is being run on a TFS build agent?

Question

We use TFS 2010.

There are a couple of projects with deployment steps which must know whether they are running on a dev machine or on the TFS build agent.

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Answer 1

When calling MSBuild from the command line, you can pass/overwrite properties like this:

# Simulate Visual Studio build
. msbuild.exe Project.csproj /p:BuildingInsideVisualStudio=true [...]

# Custom property
. msbuild.exe Project.csproj /p:MyCustomProperty=true [...]

Is use these to check them in my post/afterbuild events.