Where to write msbuild file?

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HI every one this is krishna

iam new to .net develpoment and msbuild and visual studio.
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now i have a one requirement.

i want write a build automation for building .net applications.

we are going to use jenkins a ci .

now i have where should i want to write msbuild script..

i need to write script in notepad and i want to add in tfs along with solution file?

where i want to write

What I have tried:

i wrote msbuild script in note pad. i dont know where to place it.

Posted 5-Mar-16 0:47am

krish8888

Updated 5-Mar-16 2:51am

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Richard MacCutchan 5-Mar-16 7:05am

I would probably place it in the same folder as the solution directory.

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2016-03-05T02:51:00

As Richard MacCutchan[^] mentioned in the comment to the question, you can place it whenever you want. It depends on the menthod you wrote a script.
If you wrote a script as follow:

CSS

rem this script should be placed inside the main directory of solution

set buildtool=%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\MSBuild.exe
set solution=theNameOfYourSolution.sln

%buildtool% %solution% /p:Configuration=Debug
%buildtool% %solution% /p:Configuration=Release

you have to place it in the main directory of solution.