I recently had to write an MSBuild Exec task to run the Visual Studio 2013 Code Metrics tool from the Command Line: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41647
Unfortunately, the tool is solely managed via the Command Line and there does not appear to be any specialized MSBuild Task for it. Once I started digging into the syntax, I encountered a problem with passing multiple files to the command since each file needs to be passed as a separate /file: parameter as outlined in this article: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/camerons/archive/2011/01/28/code-metrics-from-the-command-line.aspx
When working with NAnt, this operation would have been relatively easy since the exec task in NAnt provides an arg parameter: http://nant.sourceforge.net/release/latest/help/tasks/exec.html
However, the MSBuild Exec task has no such arg parameter to accomplish this in just the same manner.
Fortunately, I found this blog posting which saved me a lot of grief and helped me to come with a suitable solution to run my Code Metrics via the command line so I thought I would share it with anyone else who might need it as well: http://weblogs.asp.net/lorenh/archive/2008/12/11/msbuild-trick-for-making-lt-exec-gt-calls-more-maintainable.aspx
The MSBuild trick that it utilizes leverages an ItemGroup and delimits the elements in the ItemGroup with a single blank space character ' '. I found it extremely handy and hopefully you will too!
Unfortunately, the tool is solely managed via the Command Line and there does not appear to be any specialized MSBuild Task for it. Once I started digging into the syntax, I encountered a problem with passing multiple files to the command since each file needs to be passed as a separate /file: parameter as outlined in this article: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/camerons/archive/2011/01/28/code-metrics-from-the-command-line.aspx
When working with NAnt, this operation would have been relatively easy since the exec task in NAnt provides an arg parameter: http://nant.sourceforge.net/release/latest/help/tasks/exec.html
However, the MSBuild Exec task has no such arg parameter to accomplish this in just the same manner.
Fortunately, I found this blog posting which saved me a lot of grief and helped me to come with a suitable solution to run my Code Metrics via the command line so I thought I would share it with anyone else who might need it as well: http://weblogs.asp.net/lorenh/archive/2008/12/11/msbuild-trick-for-making-lt-exec-gt-calls-more-maintainable.aspx
The MSBuild trick that it utilizes leverages an ItemGroup and delimits the elements in the ItemGroup with a single blank space character ' '. I found it extremely handy and hopefully you will too!
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