msbuild - is there a way to specify not to build a website in a solution

Question

I'm using Visual Studio 2015 to create a build definition. Is there a way to specify somewhere in the build not to build the website in a solution?

I can manually tell it not to do that when I have the solution open (see below), but when I run the Build it errors out because the website won't build. But I don't need it to build.

Answer 1

If you don't want to build this project or sln in tfs build , you just need to remove it in the Build process parameters.

Answer 2

In your solution file (.sln), remove the Build.0 entries. For example:

Project("{E24C65DC-7377-472B-9ABA-BC803B73C61A}") = "clientapp", "clientapp\", "{F49559D6-D6E7-43D9-8EB2-DE26496D5E63}"

Search for lines containing "Build.0" and the second UID and delete them.

{F49559D6-D6E7-43D9-8EB2-DE26496D5E63}.Debug|Any CPU.Build.0 = Debug|Any CPU

The solution will load OK, but the website will not be built.

[ Thanks to BmanMA for this. ]