The SeaLights .NET agent can be integrated with MSBuild to scan the binary code and provide the SeaLights server the build information.

Generating a session ID

Before running the build scan and tests, you need to create a session ID. The session ID is provided to each step in order link them together as one complete cycle

SL.DotNet.exe config --appName "myApp" --branchName "master" --buildName "1" --includeNamespace myNameSpace.* --buildSessionIdFile buildSessionId.txt

Automatic setup

The SeaLights agent can automatically setup your MSBuild to work with the SeaLights agent.

SL.DotNet.exe prepareForMsBuild --buildSessionIdFile buildSessionId.txt --workspacePath "C:\path\to\project" --baseDir  "C:\path\to\project" --ignoreGeneratedCode true --logEnabled true

This creates a file called 'after.{SOLUTION_FILE_NAME}.targets' which sits alongside your solution file with all the needed parameters in it for.

Run MSbuild

When running MSBuild, it will identify the above file and cause our agent come up and report the details needed from the binary files.

Msbuild SlnFolders.sln /t:rebuild

Error MSB4025

In certain cases integrating our agent as part of MSBuild causes the build to fail with 'Error MSB4025: The project file could not be loaded. Could not find file ... .metaproj'. This can be solve by doing the following:

set MSBuildEmitSolution=1
Msbuild SlnFolders.sln

SL.DotNet.exe prepareForMsBuild  --buildSessionIdFile buildSessionId.txt --workspacePath "C:\path\to\project" --msBuildVersion 15