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External VS2013 build error "error MSB4019: The imported project was not found"

I am building a project through the command line and not inside Visual Studio 2013. Note, I had upgraded my project from Visual Studio 2012 to 2013. The project builds fine inside the IDE. Also, I completely uninstalled VS2012 first, rebooted, and…
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How to fix "Root element is missing." when doing a Visual Studio (VS) Build?

How to fix "Root element is missing." when doing a Visual Studio (VS) Build? Any idea what file I should look at in my solution? Actually, I am getting this error message inside of "Visual Build Pro" when using using the "Make VS 2008" command. This…
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How can the Visual Studio 2008 Build Command Line be seen?

When I am in Visual Studio I hit the F5 to do a build. Is there a way to see the MSBUILD command line being executed? Inside of Visual Build Pro the build fails but when run from Visual Studio 2008 (hitting the F5) it succeeds. Here is the command…
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How does Visual Build (kinook) build c++ projects?

The bld file has the sln file specified, but what does it call to build it? MSDev? MSBuild? other? I want to add some command line params, but I am not sure which executable it calls for unmanaged C++ solutions.
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Jenkins: Windows build re-started elevated breaks with "Build already in progress"

In Jenkins, I have in a function that has powershell '& "C:\\Program Files\\VisBuildPro9\\VisBuildCmd.exe" /logfile myLogFile /nologo myBuildFile.bld' This used to work fine until factors beyond my control caused this script to have to restart…
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Getting $LastExitCode in PowerShell when invoking Visual Build using PowerShell

I want to invoke a VisualBuild build from PowerShell and get it's last exit code. I invoke the Build using. Start-Process -FilePath $VisualBuild -ArgumentList "/b Somescript.bld" -PassThru -NoNewWindow I already tried using try catch mechanism but…
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Visual Build professional compile errors?

I am using visual build professional and one of the steps is a 'Make VS 2003' (c++ project). However, every time I get the following error: fatal error C1033: cannot open program database '' If I compile the project myself in visual studios it works…
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"Excluded from build" not working in visual studio

I am using Visual studio 2019 professional. I created one solution in which all of my source files have main function. so whenever I want to run my specific program I exclude all other source files(containing main) from build and building. But…
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Why Does Robocopy Skip A File During Builds?

I added a robocopy file to my post build event in my C# project. X64 Release and Debug build fine, as does X86 Debug, however the X86 Release option does NOT copy the Get-Parent-Device.exe file to the target. Why? Note: I can always just add a step…
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Suggestions for auto confirming MS SQL 2005 data entry in a build process

I have a automated (Visual Build) build process that runs: A set of automated smoke tests (AutoIT) that enters data into a .Net WinForm app that writes to a cleanly seeded MS SQL 2005 DB. A SQL query that returns the data I want. SELECT i.ID,…
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Is it possible to set a Visual Build Pro always-do-this-post-build event?

I would like to perform a blanket/global Visual Build Pro post-build action no matter where or why the build ended and would like to know if there is an elegant (or even crude) solution, other than placing this action at the end of every single…
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How to build an iterative user-defined action in Visual Build Professional?

In VBP its possible to define user defined actions by creating a custom COM component or a custom script. I need to create an user defined action which is iterative, which means it has to call child steps in an iterative manner like the "process…
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Visual Build Pro - Build Analysis Services Cube with MySQL datasource

I am trying to create a build script using Visual Build Pro v7 for an Analysis Services Cube I have created. The cube deploys to my local machine without issue using the following build script steps... Other than replacing the target server in the…
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How to replace text infile with regular Expression?

I want to replace a version number by a more current one (i.e. getting it from SVN, which is working fine). For testing purposes I try to replace what I find with something simple, but not even this is working. This regular expression looks fine…
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How to call a powershell script in vbscript?

I'm trying to call a powershell script in-between one of my project steps in Visual Build. I've created a new script within visual build and having that call my powershell script. I selected vbscript and this is the code within the script: Dim…
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