Building programmatically a project

Question

I need to build a project programmatically for a .csproj I am creating on the fly. While searching Google I found the classes and API provided by the MS for the MSBuild Engi

Answer 1

If you just want to build a project or solution, without elaborate parameters, you can do it more simply. Pseudocode:

using namespace Microsoft.Build.Evaluation;

var p = Project.Load("path to project");
p.SetGlobalProperty("Configuration", "Release");
p.Build(...);

That's it! BuildParameters and so forth are for quite advanced scenarios. Visual Studio itself uses them.

Dan (msbuild dev)