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How to Build a Visual Studio 2017 VSIX using MSBuild

I'm trying to use MSBuild.exe to build my Visual Studio 2017 based VSIX. I can't just build the solution as I don't want to build other projects in there. I tried using variations of the following command but these do not produce a VSIX file:

C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/Enterprise/MSBuild/15.0/Bin/MSBuild.exe" /v:normal /p:Configuration="Release" /p:Platform=AnyCPU /p:DeployExtension=false /target:Build "C:/code/Templates/Source/Boilerplate.Vsix/Boilerplate.Vsix.csproj

Solution

  • The solution was to add the magic /p:VisualStudioVersion=15.0 parameter like so:

    C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/Enterprise/MSBuild/15.0/Bin/MSBuild.exe /p:Configuration="Release" /p:DeployExtension=false /p:VisualStudioVersion=15.0 "C:/code/Templates/Source/Boilerplate.Vsix/Boilerplate.Vsix.csproj"