Because I have several builds sharing some assemblies containing common build tasks, I have one TFSBuild.proj for all builds
and import different targets depending on the build, like the following:
<Project DefaultTargets="DesktopBuild" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" ToolsVersion="3.5">
<Import Project="Build_1.targets" Condition="'$(BuildDefinition)'=='Build_1'" />
<Import Project="Build_2.targets" Condition="'$(BuildDefinition)'=='Build_2'" />
<Import Project="Build_3.targets" Condition="'$(BuildDefinition)'=='Build_3'" />
</Project>
Each target for a particular build has your usual content for a build type file, but in my case, I also reference some tasks inside assemblies checked into the same
folder as TFSBuild.proj in source control. I wanted to add folders to contain some test build targets, since my
folder was getting a bit full
and cluttered. The following illustrates what I mean.
$(TFS project)\build\
TFSBuild.proj
Build_1.targets
...
Assembly1.dll
Assembly2.dll
...
Folder\
Test_target_1.targets
....
When I stated my build, however, I found that Test_target_1.targets
and other
files in
Folder were not being copied to the build directory, while TFSBuild.proj
and other
files in the root level, as it were, of the build type
folder were being copied. This caused my test build to not be able to reference
files inside
Folder, causing my build to immediately fail.
I realize the simplest work-around would be to get rid of
Folder and move all of its contents up to the build
folder, but I would really like to have
Folder if at all possible. Thanks for your help in advance.
