Visual Studio (sln)

Since TeamCity 2019.2.3, we have stopped providing active support for the Visual Studio (sln) runner.

Since the Visual Studio (sln) runner uses MSBuild for building projects under its hood, you can softly migrate to using the .NET build runner with the msbuild command. Your configured Visual Studio (sln) settings (such as command line parameters) will work similarly with msbuild.
Note the .NET runner also supports the VS-native devenv command which allows launching Visual Studio in a command-line mode and using its own switches for building, debugging, and deploying projects.

For more details on migration, refer to the .NET runner description.

For compatibility, the Visual Studio (sln) runner will be bundled with the nearest future versions of TeamCity. You can continue using it if migration to the .NET runner is too time-consuming for your setup.
However, we will unbundle this runner after a sufficient transition period. In this case, you will still be able to install it as an external plugin. Remember to check our upgrade notes before upgrading to each following version.

This page contains reference information for the Visual Studio (sln) build runner that builds Microsoft Visual Studio 2005-2017, and, since TeamCity 2019.1, Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 solution files. To build Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 solution files, use the Visual Studio 2003 runner.

General Build Runner Options

Option	Description
Solution file path	Specify the path to the solution to be built relative to the Build Checkout Directory. For example: vs-addin\addin\addin.sln
Working directory	Specify the Build Working Directory. (optional)
Visual Studio	Select the Visual Studio version.
Targets	Specify the Microsoft Visual Studio targets specific for the previously selected Visual Studio version. The possible options are Build, Rebuild, Clean, Publish or a combination of these targets based on your needs. Multiple targets are space-separated.
Configuration	Specify the name of Microsoft Visual Studio solution configuration to build (optional).
Platform	Specify the platform for the solution. You can leave this field blank, and TeamCity will obtain this information from the solution settings (optional).
Command line parameters	Specify additional command line parameters to be passed to the build runner. Instead of explicitly specifying these parameters, it is recommended to define them on the Configuring Build Parameters page.

Last modified: 11 March 2022