Hi,

I have been trying to automate our builds through scripts
and have come across this problem:

When I open a solution and build via the IDE, the build
will succeed. However if I run "devenv /build debug
<solutionFile>" then the build will not succeed.
I have narrowed down the problem and found that when the
solution file is loaded in the code, even though it hasn't
finished loading, the rest of the code will get executed
(ie. not all details of the solution will be available and
hence the build fails).
This problem will not occur when running the build via the
IDE since the solution has already been loaded before the
build proceeds.

Our old builds ran on VC6 using the msdev object, which
actually opened up the IDE and performed the build. With
this property, our builds should work fine. Could we
get .NET 7.1 to perform the builds this way? If not, how
can we detect that a solution has been fully loaded - so
we can then perform the build.

Here is some sample code:

set objDTE = WScript.CreateObject("VisualStudio.DTE")
set sb = objDTE.Solution
sb.Open(solutionFile)
   <-- It doesn't wait till the solutionFile has been
   <-- fully loaded and jumps to the build straight
   <-- away, causing the build to fail.
sb.SolutionBuild.Build(True)

Regards,
Franklin