VCBuild Class

Definition

Namespace:

Microsoft.Build.Tasks

Assemblies:

Microsoft.Build.Tasks.dll, Microsoft.Build.Tasks.v3.5.dll

Implements the VCBuild task. Use the VCBuild element in your project file to create and execute this task.

This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code.

public ref class VCBuild : Microsoft::Build::Tasks::ToolTaskExtension

public class VCBuild : Microsoft.Build.Tasks.ToolTaskExtension

type VCBuild = class
    inherit ToolTaskExtension

Public Class VCBuild
Inherits ToolTaskExtension

Inheritance

Object

Task

ToolTask

ToolTaskExtension

VCBuild

Constructors

VCBuild()

Initializes a new instance of the VCBuild class.

Properties

AdditionalLibPaths	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets or sets additional paths to append to the LIBPATH environment variable before executing vcbuild.exe.
AdditionalLinkLibraryPaths	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets or sets additional reference paths to append to the LIB environment variable.
AdditionalOptions	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets or sets additional options you want to specify to the VCBuild tool.
Bag	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets the collection of parameters used by the derived task class. (Inherited from ToolTaskExtension)
BuildEngine	The build engine automatically sets this property to allow tasks to call back into it. (Inherited from Task)
BuildEngine2	The build engine automatically sets this property to allow tasks to call back into it. This is a convenience property so that task authors inheriting from this class do not have to cast the value from IBuildEngine to IBuildEngine2. (Inherited from Task)
BuildEngine3	Retrieves the IBuildEngine3 version of the build engine interface provided by the host. (Inherited from Task)
BuildEngine4	Retrieves the IBuildEngine4 version of the build engine interface provided by the host. (Inherited from Task)
BuildEngine5	Retrieves the IBuildEngine5 version of the build engine interface provided by the host. (Inherited from Task)
BuildEngine6	Retrieves the IBuildEngine6 version of the build engine interface provided by the host. (Inherited from Task)
BuildEngine7	Retrieves the IBuildEngine7 version of the build engine interface provided by the host. (Inherited from Task)
BuildEngine8	Retrieves the IBuildEngine8 version of the build engine interface provided by the host. (Inherited from Task)
BuildEngine9	Retrieves the IBuildEngine9 version of the build engine interface provided by the host. (Inherited from Task)
canBeIncremental	ToolTask is not incremental by default. When a derived class overrides SkipTaskExecution, then Question feature can take into effect. (Inherited from ToolTask)
Clean	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the VCBuild task outputs only clean build outputs.
Configuration	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets or sets the name of the configuration and platform to build with, such as Debug|Win32.
EchoOff	When set to true, it passes /Q to the cmd.exe command line such that the command line does not get echo-ed on stdout (Inherited from ToolTask)
EnvironmentOverride	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Overrides the LIBPATH environment variable with AdditionalLibPaths and returns the new environment variables.
EnvironmentVariables	Array of equals-separated pairs of environment variables that should be passed to the spawned executable, in addition to (or selectively overriding) the regular environment block. (Inherited from ToolTask)
ExitCode	The return code of the spawned process. If the task logged any errors, but the process had an exit code of 0 (success), this will be set to -1. (Inherited from ToolTask)
FailIfNotIncremental	(Inherited from ToolTask)
HasLoggedErrors	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Whether this ToolTaskExtension has logged any errors (Inherited from ToolTaskExtension)
HelpKeywordPrefix	Gets or sets the prefix used to compose help keywords from string resource names. If a task does not have help keywords associated with its messages, it can ignore this property or set it to null. If the prefix is set to an empty string, then string resource names will be used verbatim as help keywords. For an example of how this prefix is used, see the TaskLoggingHelper.LogErrorWithCodeFromResources(string, object[]) method. (Inherited from Task)
HostObject	The build engine sets this property if the host IDE has associated a host object with this particular task. (Inherited from Task)
Log	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets an instance of a TaskLoggingHelperExtension class containing task logging methods. (Inherited from ToolTaskExtension)
LogStandardErrorAsError	Should ALL messages received on the standard error stream be logged as errors. (Inherited from ToolTask)
Override	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets or sets the location of a VCBuild property sheet file that overrides project file settings.
Platform	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets or sets the name of the platform to build for.
Projects	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets or sets the projects to build.
Rebuild	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the task performs a clean build of outputs before performing a build.
ResponseFileEncoding	Overridable property specifying the encoding of the response file, UTF8 by default (Inherited from ToolTask)
SolutionFile	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets or sets the full path to the solution file when building solutions, which is used to resolve solution-related Visual C++ project macros.
StandardErrorEncoding	Overridable property specifying the encoding of the captured task standard error stream (Inherited from ToolTask)
StandardErrorImportance	Task Parameter: Importance with which to log text from the standard error stream. (Inherited from ToolTask)
StandardErrorImportanceToUse	The actual importance at which standard error messages will be logged. (Inherited from ToolTask)
StandardErrorLoggingImportance	Importance with which to log text from the standard error stream. (Inherited from ToolTask)
StandardOutputEncoding	Overridable property specifying the encoding of the captured task standard output stream (Inherited from ToolTask)
StandardOutputImportance	Task Parameter: Importance with which to log text from the standard out stream. (Inherited from ToolTask)
StandardOutputImportanceToUse	The actual importance at which standard out messages will be logged. (Inherited from ToolTask)
StandardOutputLoggingImportance	Importance with which to log text from in the standard out stream. (Inherited from ToolTask)
TaskProcessTerminationTimeout	A timeout to wait for a task to terminate before killing it. In milliseconds. (Inherited from ToolTask)
TaskResources	Gets or sets the task's culture-specific resources. Derived classes should register their resources either during construction, or via this property, if they have localized strings. (Inherited from Task)
Timeout	Project visible property that allows the user to specify an amount of time after which the task executable is terminated. (Inherited from ToolTask)
ToolCanceled	Used to signal when a tool has been cancelled. (Inherited from ToolTask)
ToolExe	Projects may set this to override a task's ToolName. Tasks may override this to prevent that. (Inherited from ToolTask)
ToolName	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets the name of the VCBuild tool (vcbuild.exe).
ToolPath	Project-visible property allows the user to override the path to the executable. (Inherited from ToolTask)
UseCommandProcessor	When set to true, the tool task will create a batch file for the command-line and execute that using the command-processor, rather than executing the command directly. (Inherited from ToolTask)
UseEnvironment	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets or sets a value that indicates whether to use environment variables for INCLUDE and LIB paths.
UseNewLineSeparatorInResponseFile	When set to true, the response file will use new lines instead of spaces to separate arguments. (Inherited from ToolTaskExtension)
UserEnvironment	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. This property is obsolete.
UseUtf8Encoding	Whether or not to use UTF8 encoding for the cmd file and console window. Values: Always, Never, Detect If set to Detect, the current code page will be used unless it cannot represent the Command string. In that case, UTF-8 is used. (Inherited from ToolTask)
YieldDuringToolExecution	When set to true, this task will yield the node when its task is executing. (Inherited from ToolTask)

Methods

AddCommandLineCommands(CommandLineBuilderExtension)	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Generates command-line arguments that the VCBuild tool must run directly from the command line and not from a response file.
AddResponseFileCommands(CommandLineBuilderExtension)	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Fills the provided CommandLineBuilderExtension with those switches and other information that can go into a response file. (Inherited from ToolTaskExtension)
AdjustCommandsForOperatingSystem(String)	Replace backslashes with OS-specific path separators, except when likely that the backslash is intentional. (Inherited from ToolTask)
CallHostObjectToExecute()	We expect the tasks to override this method, if they support host objects. The implementation should call into the host object to perform the real work of the task. For example, for compiler tasks like Csc and Vbc, this method would call Compile() on the host object. (Inherited from ToolTask)
Cancel()	Cancels the process executing the task by asking it to close nicely, then after a short period, forcing termination. (Inherited from ToolTask)
DeleteTempFile(String)	Delete temporary file. If the delete fails for some reason (e.g. file locked by anti-virus) then the call will not throw an exception. Instead a warning will be logged, but the build will not fail. (Inherited from ToolTask)
Execute()	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Executes the VCBuild task.
ExecuteTool(String, String, String)	Writes out a temporary response file and shell-executes the tool requested. Enables concurrent logging of the output of the tool. (Inherited from ToolTask)
GenerateCommandLineCommands()	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Returns a string with those switches and other information that can't go into a response file and must go directly onto the command line. Called after ValidateParameters and SkipTaskExecution (Inherited from ToolTaskExtension)
GenerateFullPathToTool()	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Returns the full file path of the VCBuild tool (vcbuild.exe).
GenerateResponseFileCommands()	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Returns the command line switch used by the tool executable to specify the response file Will only be called if the task returned a non empty string from GetResponseFileCommands Called after ValidateParameters, SkipTaskExecution and GetResponseFileCommands (Inherited from ToolTaskExtension)
GetBoolParameterWithDefault(String, Boolean)	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Get a bool parameter and return a default if its not present in the hash table. (Inherited from ToolTaskExtension)
GetIntParameterWithDefault(String, Int32)	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Get an int parameter and return a default if its not present in the hash table. (Inherited from ToolTaskExtension)
GetProcessStartInfo(String, String, String)	Initializes the information required to spawn the process executing the tool. (Inherited from ToolTask)
GetResponseFileSwitch(String)	Returns the command line switch used by the tool executable to specify the response file. Will only be called if the task returned a non empty string from GetResponseFileCommands Called after ValidateParameters, SkipTaskExecution and GetResponseFileCommands (Inherited from ToolTask)
GetWorkingDirectory()	Gets the working directory to use for the process. Should return null if ToolTask should use the current directory. (Inherited from ToolTask)
HandleTaskExecutionErrors()	Allows tool to handle the return code. This method will only be called with non-zero exitCode. (Inherited from ToolTask)
InitializeHostObject()	We expect tasks to override this method if they support host objects. The implementation should make sure that the host object is ready to perform the real work of the task. (Inherited from ToolTask)
LogEventsFromTextOutput(String, MessageImportance)	Calls a method on the TaskLoggingHelper to parse a single line of text to see if there are any errors or warnings in canonical format. This can be overridden by the derived class if necessary. (Inherited from ToolTask)
LogPathToTool(String, String)	Logs the tool name and the path from where it is being run. (Inherited from ToolTask)
LogToolCommand(String)	Logs the actual command line about to be executed (or what the task wants the log to show) (Inherited from ToolTask)
ProcessStarted()	Overridable function called after Start() in ExecuteTool(String, String, String) (Inherited from ToolTask)
ReceiveExitNotification(Object, EventArgs)	Signals when the tool exits. The Process object executing the tool calls this method when the tool exits. (Inherited from ToolTask)
ReceiveStandardErrorData(Object, DataReceivedEventArgs)	Queues up the output from the stderr stream of the process executing the tool, and signals the availability of the data. The Process object executing the tool calls this method for every line of text that the tool writes to stderr. (Inherited from ToolTask)
ReceiveStandardOutputData(Object, DataReceivedEventArgs)	Queues up the output from the stdout stream of the process executing the tool, and signals the availability of the data. The Process object executing the tool calls this method for every line of text that the tool writes to stdout. (Inherited from ToolTask)
ResponseFileEscape(String)	Overridable method to escape content of the response file (Inherited from ToolTask)
SkipTaskExecution()	Returns true if task execution is not necessary. Executed after ValidateParameters (Inherited from ToolTask)
StartToolProcess(Process)	We expect tasks to override this method if they need information about the tool process or its process events during task execution. Implementation should make sure that the task is started in this method. Starts the process during task execution. (Inherited from ToolTask)
ValidateParameters()	This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Validates input parameters and logs errors or warnings, if any. Returns a value that indicates whether task execution should proceed.