How do I get system property from teamcity in msbuild file?

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teamcity version:6.0

Ben Hall has a good [post with pics](http://blog.benhall.me.uk/2008/06/team-city-update-assemblyinfo-with.html) that helped me.... — Ruben Bartelink, Apr 27 '11 at 13:52

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 18 '11 at 09:45

Try removing system_ part from property's name.

The documentation says

Don't forget to leave the "system." part out of the system
properties.

When using MSBuild, replace "." with "_" when you reference property names.

(However this is version 6.5 documentation, maybe it woun't work in your case but you can try it anyway)

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 15 '11 at 09:52

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Just use $(system_property_name) in your MSBuild file.

answered Feb 15 '11 at 09:52

Aleš Roubíček

I tried this in my build file, but both property values are empty. $(system_build_number) $(dep_bt30_system_build_number) – yang-qu Feb 15 '11 at 23:16
What about `$(build_number)`? It should work. – Aleš Roubíček Feb 18 '11 at 09:15

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 30 '11 at 09:35

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<PropertyGroup>
    <Version>$(BUILD_NUMBER)</Version>
</PropertyGroup>

answered Sep 30 '11 at 09:35

Ashfaq Hussain

Yes, that works. The trouble here is that I also need to get dependent build number. What I did is to create a system property and assign dependent build number to it, then I can use this system property in build file. e.g. Name: system.dep.build.number, Value: %dep.bt23.build.number%. Now, in msbuild file, you can use $(dep_build_number) to get dependent build number. – yang-qu Dec 22 '11 at 02:51

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