Building .vdproj with Visual Studio 2015 does not create output files (.msi)

Question

I am building vdproj with devenv. Command runs without errors, but no output with .msi files is generated, what am I doing wrong?

devenv "C:\Projects\MyProj\Main\Src\MyProj\MyProj.sln" 
/build "'PRO VERSION|Mixed Platforms'" 
/project "C:\Projects\MyProj\Main\Src\MyProj\MyProj.Setup\MyProj.Setup.vdproj"
/projectconfig "'PRO VERSION|Mixed Platforms'"

I am running it against Visual Studio 14.0/Common7/IDE/devenv

I am also facing the same, have you found any solution? Please let me know. — Animesh, Mar 28 '17 at 04:09
I've added a powershell script which is what I use now, it works due to registry key, that was missing before. But if you add it manually, there is a big chance that windows or VS update will overwrite it again (happened to me numerous times) — VidasV, Dec 22 '17 at 17:35

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 22 '17 at 17:34

I was able to make it working by adding the following registry value:

Try
{
    New-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0_Config\MSBuild\" -Name "EnableOutOfProcBuild" -Value 00000000 -PropertyType DWORD -Force | Out-Null
}
Catch
{
    $ErrorMessage2 = $_.Exception.Message
    "ERROR adding 'EnableOutOfProcBuild' registry value, error: $ErrorMessage2"
}

and then running following:

$devenv = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv";

    $config = "$ConfigurationMode|$Platform";
     & $devenv ($SolutionPath, "/project", $SetupProjectPath, "/build", "$config")

Building .vdproj with Visual Studio 2015 does not create output files (.msi)

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