Abillity to indicate success/error of post build step ,OnBuildProjConfigDone

[audipen]

Hi,

I trap the 'OnBuildProjConfigDone' and perform some custom enhancement
to the assembly. I check the 'bool Success' parameter before I perform
my step. I go ahead only if 'Success == true"

My question is - Is there any way in which I can indicate success or
failure of my post build step.. 'Success' is an in-parameter, so I cant
set it to false. Also the return type of the handler is void.

I want something other than reporting to the output window because I
need to automate certain tests.

If devenv.exe is spawned with a solution file and 'runexit' as
arguments...it rebuilds the projects in the solution and runs the
application. If there is a compilation error the exit code of the
process is 1, indicating failure. I want to return something similar to
indicate failure of my custom post build step.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Ady.

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [.NET MVP]]

You could trap Command events for the several Build.XXX commands instead,
but only the BeforeExecute event has a parameter to cancel, the AfterExecute
event does not.

See:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555090

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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

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