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Why vsSolutionBuildEvent ?

Advanced handler of the most events from MS Visual Studio & MSBuild tools. Full control and flexible multi-actions for basic pre/post events and other additional such as:

CommandEvent, Errors, Warnings, Cancel-Build, Output-Build, Transmitter, Logging

Ability to handle events for all subprojects at once from the whole solution as an Solution-Events or individually for each separately.

Various modes for everything:

Files Mode, Operation Mode, Interpreter Mode, Script Mode, Targets Mode, C# Mode

Supports Advanced MSBuild & SBE-Scripts engine for your awesome ideas.

Provides CI support (TeamCity, AppVeyor, Azure DevOps, ...), Command-Line mode and lot of other features for convenient work with the builds, tests, versioning, IO operations, and so on. See the documentation.

SBE-Scripts
MSBuild
Examples - scripts, solutions, syntax etc.,
Continuous Integration (CI)
Processing modes
API

Advanced MSBuild

Through E-MSBuild engine.

#[$(
    [System.Math]::Exp('$(
        [MSBuild]::Multiply(
            $([System.Math]::Log(10)), 
            4
        ))'
    )
)]

$(n = 0)       $(desc = "Hello ")
$(n += 3.14)   $(desc += "from vsSBE !")
$(n += $(n))   $(p1 = " Platform is $(Platform)")

$(...)
$(...:project) - from selected project in your solution
$$(...) ... $$(...:project)

$(tStart = $([System.DateTime]::Parse("2014/01/01").ToBinary()))
$([System.Guid]::NewGuid())

$([System.TimeSpan]::FromTicks($([MSBuild]::Subtract($(tNow), $(tStart))))
                        .TotalHours.ToString("0"))

$(pdir = $(ProjectDir:project))
$(pdir = $(ProjectDir.Replace('\', '/'):project))

#SobaScript

https://github.com/3F/SobaScript -- Extensible Modular Scripting Programming Language.

#["
    #SobaScript in action
"]
#[var v = 1.2.3]
#[$(log = "$(TMP)/v.txt")]

#[($(Configuration) ~= Deb || true)
{
    #[var tBase     = $([System.DateTime]::Parse('2019/08/01').ToBinary())]
    #[var tNow      = $([System.DateTime]::UtcNow.Ticks)]
    #[var revBuild  = #[$(
        [System.TimeSpan]::FromTicks('$(
            [MSBuild]::Subtract(
            $(tNow), 
            $(tBase))
        )')
        .TotalMinutes
        .ToString('0')
    )]]
    
    #[var v = $(v).$([MSBuild]::Modulo($(revBuild), $([System.Math]::Pow(2, 14))))]
}]

#[var v = $([System.String]::Format("v{0}\r\n\t", $(v)))]

#[try
{ 
    #[File write("#[var log]"):> Example #[var v] Generated by a vsSolutionBuildEvent]
    #[IO scall("notepad", "#[var log]")]
}
catch(err, msg)
{
    $(err) - Type of Exception
    $(msg) - Error Message
}]

For example, you can even exclude projects from build at runtime:

#[Build projects.find("name").IsBuildable = false]

Capture data from external utilities:

#[var bSha1 = #[IO sout("git", "rev-parse --short HEAD")]]

Work with files and archives:

#[IO copy.file("$(odir)/notes.txt", "$(pDirCIM)bin\\$(cfg)\\", true)]
#[7z pack.files({
            "$(pDirBridge)bin\$(cfg)\Bridge.*.*",
            "CI.MSBuild.dll",
            "CI.MSBuild.pdb",
            "$(pDirCIM)bin\$(cfg)\*.txt"}, "$(odir)CI.MSBuild_v$(numCIM)_[$(branchSha1)][$(netStamp)].zip")]

+DTE-commands, +Access to all MSBuild properties on the fly, +Conditional statements and lot of other components:

#[try
{
    #[Box iterate(i = 0; $(i) < 10; i += 1): 
        ...
    ]
}catch{ }]

#[( #[vsSBE events.Pre.item(1).Enabled] || ($(Configuration) == "Release" && $(sysc)) )
{
    #[Build projects.find("name").IsBuildable = false]
}
else
{
    #[var bSha1 = #[IO sout("git", "rev-parse --short HEAD")]]
    ...
}]

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Processing modes

https://vssbe.r-eg.net/doc/Modes/

From simple commands to C# or even msbuild targets:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">

    <Target Name="Init">
        <!-- ... -->
    </Target>

    <!--
        Additional properties:
            $(ActionName)
            $(BuildType)
            $(EventType)
            $(SupportMSBuild)
            $(SupportSBEScripts)
            $(SolutionActiveCfg)
            $(StartupProject)
    -->
</Project>

CommandEvent (DTE)

You can also use this to catch all command from VS IDE. Samples:

$(lcGuid = #[DTE events.LastCommand.Guid])
$(lcId   = #[DTE events.LastCommand.Id])

#[($(lcGuid) == "{1496A755-94DE-11D0-8C3F-00C04FC2AAE2}" && $(lcId) == 1627) {
    #[File scall("notepad", "#[var log]", 30)]
}]