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NEW POST: Sandcastle documentation with TFS 2008Team Build

shabarie — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:59:51 GMT

Hi All,
I was trying to generate documents with TFS 2008 Team Build using the targets prescribed by Richard Murillo, found it a bit tedious. Pls try the one given in the link below and it works with minimum effort: http://ozgrant.com/2008/02/19/building-sandcastle-documentation-with-team-build/#comment-16374
It uses the Sandcastle Help File Builder project done by the Codeplex.
I hope you appreciate..
-Shabariji.

NEW POST: Problem with Sandcastle MSBUILD script

byronfromwes92 — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:39:23 GMT

Hello, friends. I am trying to add automated documentation to my MSBUILD process. I've added the following to my project file:

CODE
<Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\Sandcastle.targets"/>
<Target Name="DocumentWPP">
<CallTarget Targets="SandcastleDocument" ContinueOnError="false" />
<MakeDir Condition="!Exists('$(BinariesRoot)\Documentation')" Directories="$(BinariesRoot)\Documentation" ContinueOnError="false" />
<Copy SourceFiles="$(SandcastleWorkingDirectory)\Output\$(SandcastleDocumentationName).chm" DestinationFiles="$(BinariesRoot)\Documentation\$(SandcastleDocumentationName).chm" ContinueOnError="false"/>
</Target>
/CODE

When I run MSBUILD by the command line, I get the following error:

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Sandcastle.targets(43,51): error MSB4023: Cannot evaluate the item meta-data "%(Filename)". The item meta-data "%(Filename)" cannot be applied to the path ""C:\development\Web Publisher Portal\Visual Studio Solution\Advertising.Core\bin\Debug"\%2a.xml". Illegal characters in path.

I have two .xml files in the dir; one for the project assembly, the other for the namespaces. They are named project.core.xml and namespaces.project.core.xml. Why might I be getting this error? Thanks!

User Forum: RE: Problem using MSDN webservice

andlju — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:14:54 GMT

I've seen this message too, but it seems to be gone in the December CTP? But I'm not sure, it could be just a coincidence that I didn't get them the last time I tried.

User Forum: RE: Dec CTP msbuild scripts?

andlju — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:23:09 GMT

I see that you solved this by turning off the friendly file-name feature. Probably the only way to do it at the moment, I'd expect this error to show up with or without my scripts. To be honest I haven't even had a chance to test the Dec CTP build, but reading the release notes I couldn't find anything that would break the MSBuild scripts. However, they could certainly be improved now that there aren't any hard-coded paths in the .config file anymore.

User Forum: Dec CTP msbuild scripts?

sburgess — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:14:44 GMT

Are there any known issues with the MSBuild scripts for Nov CTP working with Dec CTP of Sancastle? Ive recently upgraded to Dec CTP (+ Nov CTP MSbuild scripts) but some assemblies that were previously documented fine are now blowing up because of a 260 path limit, see forum question: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1037778&SiteID=1

User Forum: Problem using MSDN webservice

mattman206 — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:40:36 GMT

The msbuild documentation task grinds to a halt and spits out this error ~10 times. It will eventually finish building the .chm file but the links don't work. Warn: ResolveReferenceLinksComponent: Lookup of the asset ID 'content identifier not found.' using the MSDN topic URL web service failed. The error message is: content identifier not found. Any ideas? Great tool, thanks!! -Matt

User Forum: MSBuild Community Tasks

mattman206 — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:46:22 GMT

This would be an excellent addition to the MSBuild Community Tasks project, which already has a task for NDoc, but needs one for Sandcastle. http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/