Programmatically build a Visual Studio solution?

Question

Is there a way to programmatically build Visual Studio solutions? Eg if you are inside a console app, can you programmatically build an existing solution elsewhere?

Answer 1

Sure- MSBuild is included on any machine with .NET 2.0 or better installed. Just call it and pass the solution file, or drive the MSBuild classes (see Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.Engine ) from your code to do it.

Answer 2

devenv.exe solution.sln / build“发布”

Answer 3

You should no longer use the Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.Engine class. Per MSDN, "This class has been deprecated. Please use Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.ProjectCollection from the Microsoft.Build assembly instead."