Event-Catcher with variety of advanced Actions to service projects, libraries, the build processes and processes at runtime from Visual Studio and MSBuild Tools.
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Advanced handler of the most events from MS Visual Studio & MSBuild tools. Full control and flexible multi-actions for basic pre/post events and other additional such as:
- CommandEvent, Errors, Warnings, Cancel-Build, Output-Build, Transmitter, Logging
Ability to handle events for all subprojects at once from the whole solution as an Solution-Events or individually for each separately.
Various modes for everything:
- Files Mode, Operation Mode, Interpreter Mode, Script Mode, Targets Mode, C# Mode
Supports additional MSBuild features & SBE-Scripts engine for your awesome ideas.
Possible work even without Visual Studio.
Provides also support of the CI-Build Servers (TeamCity, AppVeyor, Azure DevOps, ...), Command-Line mode and lot of other features for the convenience of your work with the build, tests, versioning, IO operations, and so on. See the documentation.
- SBE-Scripts
- MSBuild
- Examples - scripts, solutions, syntax etc.,
- Continuous Integration (CI)
- Processing modes
- API
Through E-MSBuild engine.
#[$(
[System.Math]::Exp('$(
[MSBuild]::Multiply(
$([System.Math]::Log(10)),
4
))'
)
)]$(n = 0) $(desc = "Hello ")
$(n += 3.14) $(desc += "from vsSBE !")
$(n += $(n)) $(p1 = " Platform is $(Platform)")$(...)
$(...:project) - from selected project in your solution
$$(...) ... $$(...:project)$(tStart = $([System.DateTime]::Parse("2014/01/01").ToBinary()))
$([System.Guid]::NewGuid())
$([System.TimeSpan]::FromTicks($([MSBuild]::Subtract($(tNow), $(tStart))))
.TotalHours.ToString("0"))
$(pdir = $(ProjectDir:project))
$(pdir = $(ProjectDir.Replace('\', '/'):project))https://github.com/3F/SobaScript -- Extensible Modular Scripting Programming Language.
#["
#SobaScript in action
"]
#[var v = 1.2.3]
#[$(log = "$(TMP)/v.txt")]
#[($(Configuration) ~= Deb || true)
{
#[var tBase = $([System.DateTime]::Parse('2019/08/01').ToBinary())]
#[var tNow = $([System.DateTime]::UtcNow.Ticks)]
#[var revBuild = #[$(
[System.TimeSpan]::FromTicks('$(
[MSBuild]::Subtract(
$(tNow),
$(tBase))
)')
.TotalMinutes
.ToString('0')
)]]
#[var v = $(v).$([MSBuild]::Modulo($(revBuild), $([System.Math]::Pow(2, 14))))]
}]
#[var v = $([System.String]::Format("v{0}\r\n\t", $(v)))]
#[try
{
#[File write("#[var log]"):> Example #[var v] Generated by a vsSolutionBuildEvent]
#[IO scall("notepad", "#[var log]")]
}
catch(err, msg)
{
$(err) - Type of Exception
$(msg) - Error Message
}]For example, you can even exclude projects from build at runtime:
#[Build projects.find("name").IsBuildable = false]Capture data from external utilities:
#[var bSha1 = #[IO sout("git", "rev-parse --short HEAD")]]Work with files and archives:
#[IO copy.file("$(odir)/notes.txt", "$(pDirCIM)bin\\$(cfg)\\", true)]
#[7z pack.files({
"$(pDirBridge)bin\$(cfg)\Bridge.*.*",
"CI.MSBuild.dll",
"CI.MSBuild.pdb",
"$(pDirCIM)bin\$(cfg)\*.txt"}, "$(odir)CI.MSBuild_v$(numCIM)_[$(branchSha1)][$(netStamp)].zip")]+DTE-commands, +Access to all MSBuild properties on the fly, +Conditional statements and lot of other components:
#[try
{
#[Box iterate(i = 0; $(i) < 10; i += 1):
...
]
}catch{ }]
#[( #[vsSBE events.Pre.item(1).Enabled] || ($(Configuration) == "Release" && $(sysc)) )
{
#[Build projects.find("name").IsBuildable = false]
}
else
{
#[var bSha1 = #[IO sout("git", "rev-parse --short HEAD")]]
...
}]https://vssbe.r-eg.net/doc/Modes/
From simple commands to C# or even msbuild targets:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<Target Name="Init">
<!-- ... -->
</Target>
<!--
Additional properties:
$(ActionName)
$(BuildType)
$(EventType)
$(SupportMSBuild)
$(SupportSBEScripts)
$(SolutionActiveCfg)
$(StartupProject)
-->
</Project>You can also use this to catch all command from VS IDE. Samples:
$(lcGuid = #[DTE events.LastCommand.Guid])
$(lcId = #[DTE events.LastCommand.Id])
#[($(lcGuid) == "{1496A755-94DE-11D0-8C3F-00C04FC2AAE2}" && $(lcId) == 1627) {
#[File scall("notepad", "#[var log]", 30)]
}]
See our Wizard for automatic code generation or use any custom scripts.
You can easily use this with TeamCity, Azure DevOps, AppVeyor, and any other automated environments:
...
Pre-Build / Post-Build events for all projects at once or individually for each separately: configure what you need.
Immediately stop (at the same time) after the first appearance (compared with StopOnFirstBuildError plugin [?])
Wiki - Contains help for work with plugins, basic examples, syntax, information for develop, and lot of other...
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