David

Do you know if it’s possible to have individual .cs files (i.e. each class in its own file) for each class? I’ve been looking for something like this for a while. Though I like partial classes, I can’t stand it when there is more than one class in a .cs file. In fact, it often violates the coding standards for most of my clients.

Any assistance is appreciated : )

I changed my outputs to

Outputs="@(GenerateSerializationClass->'%(RelativeDir)%(Filename).cs')"

And it does build incrementally. Thanks for your help.

In your GenerateSerializationClasses target’s Outputs, try using %(RelativeDir) instead of %(Directory). %(Directory) will give you the full directory path (without the drive letter) to your file, which MSBuild will treat as relative.

An easy way to debug these sorts of problems is to increase the verbosity of your MSBuild output. To do that within VS, go to Tools > Options… > Projects and Solutions > Build and Run, and on the options page you should see a drop down for MSBuild project build output verbosity. Usually “Detailed” is enough to see something like this:

Output file “UsersddewinterDocumentsProjectsDBML FixupImplementationDeWinter.DbmlFixupDeWinter.DbmlFixup.IntegrationConceptualDbmlFixupPreferences.cs” does not exist.
Output file “UsersddewinterDocumentsProjectsDBML FixupImplementationDeWinter.DbmlFixupDeWinter.DbmlFixup.IntegrationConceptualDbmlSchema.cs” does not exist.

Hope this helps!

David

I have been trying to cater for multiple xsd files in a project by modifying the build rules you put in part 1. I have come up with the following sample build file. The only problem I am having is that the classes are regenerated every time msbuild is run, which means I have to have the files checked out every time I do a build. Do you know how to get this to work incrementally?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="3.5" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003"&gt;
<ItemGroup>
<GenerateSerializationClass Include="DataSourcesChequeData.xsd" />
<GenerateSerializationClass Include="DataSourcesLoadDataResponse.xsd" />
</ItemGroup>
<Target
Name="GenerateSerializationClasses"
Inputs="@(GenerateSerializationClass)"
Outputs="@(GenerateSerializationClass->'%(Directory)%(Filename).cs')">
<Exec
WorkingDirectory="DataSources"
Command="&quot;C:Program FilesMicrosoft SDKsWindowsv6.0aBinxsd.exe&quot; %(GenerateSerializationClass.Filename)%(GenerateSerializationClass.Extension) /classes /n:MyCompanyName.Logic.DataSources"
/>
</Target>
<Target Name="Build" DependsOnTargets="GenerateSerializationClasses">
</Target>
</Project>