can build using visual studio ide but cannot build using devenv.com

Question

hi, i'm using VS 2008. I can compile my solution using the IDE successfully. However, when I try to build it using devenv.com, it fails saying that "ERROR: Cannot find outputs of project output group '(unable to determine name)'. Either the group, its configuration, or its project may have been removed from the solution." while building a .vdproj setup project.

A similar problem is here

any ideas to fix this? thx

Edit: Actually cruisecontrol.net tries to build the solution using devenv.com. Here is the devenv section i use in ccnet.config:

<devenv>
      <solutionfile>xxxxx.sln</solutionfile>
      <configuration>Debug</configuration>
      <buildtype>Build</buildtype>
      <executable>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.com</executable>
      <buildTimeoutSeconds>60000</buildTimeoutSeconds>
      <version>VS2008</version>
    </devenv>

Answer 1

It sounds like you have an invalid argument in the command line you pass to devenv.com.

Does it work ok if you create a new solution with a simple hello world project?

Cheers,

Sebastiaan