MS Team Foundation Server / Team Build (Part 2)

Creating a stand alone setup.exe/msi wasn't as easy for me as it should have been. Following Microsoft's suggestion of adding the .vdproj file to my "AfterCompile" target in my TFSBuild.proj file did not work; I got a compile error.

<Project>
...
<Target Name="AfterCompile"> 
    <Exec Command="&quot;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv&quot;&quot;$(SolutionRoot)\HelloWorldTest\HelloWorldTestInstaller\HelloWorldTestInstaller.vdproj /Build &quot;Debug|Any CPU&quot;"/> 
    <Copy SourceFiles="$(SolutionRoot)\HelloWorldTest\HelloWorldTestInstaller\Debug\HelloWorldTestInstaller.msi" DestinationFolder="$(OutDir)" /> 
<Copy SourceFiles="$(SolutionRoot)\HelloWorldTest\HelloWorldTestInstaller\Debug\setup.exe" 
DestinationFolder="$(OutDir)" /> 
</Target> 
</Project>

What I ended up doing was replacing the .vdproj file with the entire .sln file. Then I copied the setup.exe and .msi files out to the specified drop directory.

<Project>
...
<Target Name="AfterCompile">
    <Exec Command="del &quot;$(OutDir)*&quot; /q" />
    <Exec Command="&quot;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv&quot; &quot;$(SolutionRoot)\Project.sln&quot; /Build &quot;Debug|Any CPU&quot;" />
    <Copy SourceFiles="$(SolutionRoot)\ProjectSetup.msi" DestinationFolder="$(OutDir)" />
    <Copy SourceFiles="$(SolutionRoot)\setup.exe" DestinationFolder="$(OutDir)" />
</Target>
</Project>