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Aim to Acheive : I want to execute my application from msbuild as it shows a lot of helpful information about the execution including the most important the Time of Execution.

I have :

  • A Visual Studio Project, and I use Ctrl+F5 to execute my application in Visual Stdio.

  • I want to execute the same Ctrl+F5 execution from the command prompt using MSBuild command.

  • I prefer not to write my own Msbuild execution task for this and want to use the task that Visual Studio uses to do Ctrl+F5.

How do you do it from command prompt using MSBuild ?

I Build my projects with MSBuild as :

C:\project> msbuild project.vbproj /t:"Clean;Build"

Now, how to execute it with MSBuild ?

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    Downvoters - which part of this question do you feel needs improvement? Can you add some comments? It seems this question isn't 100% clear, but demonstrates what they want to accomplish. Commented Aug 3, 2011 at 6:13
  • I have added Aim to achieve to the question, to make it more clear. Commented Aug 3, 2011 at 7:24

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You can use the <Exec> task... or you could just run the program from the command line explicitly, of course. (I'd only put it in the build file if executing it was naturally part of the build - e.g. an early part of the build created a tool which was then used to preprocess a resource for a later part of the build.)

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Can you give example, how can I use the inbuilt Exec task ?
Reply back.. with an example !
@Yugal: There's an example in the documentation I linked to.

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