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

i'm using VS 2008. I can compile my solution using the IDE successfully. However, when I try to build it usin开发者_C百科g 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>

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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

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Have you tried using the MSBuild task instead of VisualStudio? I have always had better results with MSBuild, especially as it means you do not need VisualStudio installed on your Build Machine.

Here is a generic config based off what I use:

<msbuild>
    <executable>C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\MSBuild.exe</executable>
    <workingDirectory>D:\dev\your\path\</workingDirectory>
    <projectFile>xxxx.sln</projectFile>
    <buildArgs>/v:m /noconlog /p:Configuration=Debug</buildArgs>
    <targets>Build</targets>
    <!--<logger>C:\Program Files\CruiseControl.NET\server\Rodemeyer.MsBuildToCCNet.dll</logger>-->
    <!-- If you dont have that logger for CruiseControl, you should try it :) -->
</msbuild>

If this does not work, you can also run it from a command line:

>cd "D:\dev\your\path\"
>D:
>C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\MSBuild.exe /v:m /p:Configuration=Debug xxxxx.sln

You can change the v (Verbosity) flag to something higher to get more output if you need (see msdn article on MSBuild here).