SubWCRev.exe in msbuild to find local modifications

Question

hi, i want to execute SubWCRev.exe in msbuild to check for local modifications .if local modifications found then i want to display message on command prompt. please tell me how can i use this.

thanks

Answer 1

Using MSBuild Exec task you can't get the output, so you'll have to write an MSBuild custom task to do that (Or an inline task if you are using MSBuild v4).

In that task you'll execute SubWCRev.exe, parse the result and set it to an output property.