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Build your Visual Studio Solution without "Opening" Visual Studio (You still need it installed)
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build-project.ps1
#Place me in the same folder as the sln file
#Get the path of the sln file
Get-ChildItem -Path .\ -Filter *.sln -Recurse -File | ForEach-Object {
$solution = $_.FullName
}
#If you don't have Visual Studio Professional update the path to use a different edition i.e Community or Enterprise. Make sure MsBuild.exe is located there
cmd /c "`"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\MsBuild.exe`" `"$solution`" /t:Restore"
cmd /c "`"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\MsBuild.exe`" `"$solution`" /t:Rebuild"
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DBQC commented Aug 2, 2021

Noticed the paths for the MsBuild.exe are looking at 2017 installs of VS. I would suggest a possible improvement would be to use the new mswhere.exe to find the latest version of MsBuild on a machine:
https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere/wiki/Find-MSBuild

This powershell will return the path of the msbuild which could be used as a variable in your script:
&"${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe" -latest -prerelease -products * -requires Microsoft.Component.MSBuild -find MSBuild**\Bin\MSBuild.exe

For systems without VS installed, vswhere is a standalone exe that can be downloaded onto systems and run to find the latest MSBuild.exe if one exists.

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