Generate Visual Studio Project Templates with CruiseControl.Net or MSBuild

Question

Hey all.

I have a working workflow in CruiseControl.Net that successfully builds and tests an MSBuild project that is calling my Visual Studio 2010 solution.

How do I create Visual Studio project templates in either CruiseControl.Net or with MSBuild? The build server does not have Visual Studio 2010 installed.

Thanks for your time!

Note: This can be extended to any other solution that could be scripted with a batch as well, but I cannot install Visual Studio 2010 on the machine.

Answer 1

I was able to find out that creating a zip file with a .vstemplate file inside creates a Visual Studio project template.