visual-build-professional

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 files" built in action does. I can't figure out how to do this and Google isn't helpful eit...

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, i.firstname, i.lastname, i.ModDate FROM app.Individual i Where lastname = 'Doe' Now what...

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 fine. Anyone know why this would be, or how I can fix it? ...

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 command works just fine when building other solutions (like about 20) and I am not real...

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 line used inside of Visual Build Pro: C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\msbuild...