How to copy the file when the project is build from cake script ?

[Vijaykumarj]

Hi,

 I am a newbie in cake build and prepared a cake script for the deployment of my ASP.Net Core 5 project and I am using Cake 2.1.0. 

Do we have any feature like "Build Actions in Visual Studio - i.e Copy the files to output directory" using Cake build?

Ref Link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/build-actions?view=vs-2022

Any suggestions or recommendations on this.

Thanks in advance.

[nils-a]

@Vijaykumarj, There are a lot of file operations available. Take a look at the "copy" section of the "file-operations" documentation

[Vijaykumarj]

Hi, @nils-a I was passed the SolutionDir property with the value to msbuildSettings even though getting the error as "Undefined*" while running the PostBuild event.

[nils-a]

@Vijaykumarj could you run Cake with the parameter --verbosity=diagnostic ?

There should be some line similar to

Executing: "C:/Program Files/dotnet/dotnet.exe" build "./foo/foo.csproj" /property:SolutionDir=c:\

Could you post that line?

[Vijaykumarj]

@nils-a I ran the Cake script with parameter --verbosity=diagnostic . Properties are passed with DotNetBuild (Projects). But I am not able to pass the Properties to my Unit Tests project with DotNetCoreTestSettings. This Unit Test project has referenced one of the projects which contain PostBuild Event.

Code Snippet for Run Unit Test project:

Task("Run-Unit-Tests") .IsDependentOn("Copy webconfig") .Does(() => { Information("project.FullPath"); var msbuildSettings = new DotNetMSBuildSettings() { Verbosity = DotNetVerbosity.Minimal, }; msbuildSettings.Properties.Add("SolutionDir", new[]{solutionDir}); foreach(var project in projects.Where(p => p.IsTestProject)) { var buildSettings = new DotNetCoreTestSettings() { Configuration = configuration, MSBuildSettings = msbuildSettings }; DotNetTest(project.FullPath, buildSettings); Information(project.FullPath); }

There is no property or msbuildsettings pass in DotNetCoreTestSettings as per official documentation.

Can you guide me on how to pass the Properties to DotNetTest?

[nils-a]

@Vijaykumarj sure. DotNetBuild the test project, as shown above.
Then call DotNetTest with DotNetTestSettings.NoBuild set to true.

[Vijaykumarj]

thanks, @nils-a, It's working as expected. Thank you so much. I appreciate your support.