Command-line Package Service Fabric Application

Question

Our continuous delivery set-up, until recently, was delivering Service Fabric packages using the following command:

msbuild SFApp.sfproj /t:Package

Answer 1

It's bad idea to compile sfproj file(and any other project file) without sln, because it can bring wrong content to its output from referenced projects. Only solution has a knowledge about what project to compile in what configuration.

To make Package similar to "Right Click->Package" in VS: Just add to your sfproj the following target

And then running normal build on solution you may trigger the package step by /p:ForcePackageTarget=true :

msbuild yoursolution.sln /t:Build /p:ForcePackageTarget=true /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64

Actually it performs two-in-one steps, build and package, with respect to Solution Configurations on all referenced projects