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I have several complex things to accomplish before a build can begin. Writing this in batch would be a nightmare. Writing these in CS would be lovely. I think CSX would be my most reasonable approach. But, is it possible? How do I invoke it?

PS: should you happen to have a better/simpler approach, I would welcome it.

Jerry Nixon
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How I managed to do so:

  1. Add BuildScript.csx file to your project, containing the script you wish to run at pre-build (VS2017 would interpret .csx files as C# (intelisense etc.))

  2. Add the following to the pre-build commands, to call the C# script compiler on your script:

    "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\Bin\csi.exe" "$(ProjectDir)BuildScript.csx"

You can improve this and future usage of csi.exe by adding C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\Bin\ to Path environment variable, so the command would be:

csi "$(ProjectDir)BuildScript.csx"

P.S: Could you please specify what exactly are you trying to do? There might be more simple solution.

idanp
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