Since TeamCity 2019.2.3, we have stopped providing active support for the MSBuild runner. We recommend using the .NET runner with the msbuild command instead as it provides more features and is actively updated. For more details on migration, refer to the .NET runner description.
This page contains reference information for the MSBuild build runner fields.
The MSBuild runner requires .NET Framework or Mono installed on the build agent. Microsoft Build Tools 2013-2019 are supported.
Before setting up a build configuration to use MSBuild as the build runner, make sure you are using an XML build project file with the MSBuild runner.
To build a Microsoft Visual Studio solution file, you can use the Visual Studio (sln) build runner.
Settings
Option
Description
Build 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
Optional. Specify the path to the build working directory if it differs from the build checkout directory.
MSBuild version
Select the MSBuild version: .NET Framework, Mono xbuild or Microsoft Build Tools.
MSBuild ToolsVersion
Specify here the version of tools that will be used to compile (equivalent to the /toolsversion: commandline argument).
note
MSBuild supports compilation to older versions, thus you may set MSBuild version as 4.6.1 with MSBuild ToolsVersion set to 2.0 to produce .NET 2.0 assemblies while running MSBuild from .NET Framework 4.6.1. For more information, refer to this article
Run platform
From the drop-down menu, select the desired execution mode on a x64 machine.
Targets
A target is an arbitrary script for your project purposes. Enter targets separated by spaces. The available targets can be viewed in the Web UI by clicking the icon next to the field and added by checking the appropriate boxes.
Command line parameters
Specify any additional parameters for MSBuild.exe.
Reduce test failure feedback time
Use this option to instruct TeamCity to run the tests which failed in the previous builds before others.