Relative Path could not be found!

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I tried to generate a project with msbuild giving a relative path like "..\..\Path\Project" and in fact the destination of this is determined correctly. However, msbuild returns an error: "Project does not exist."

1st Do I have to specify relative paths with a different syntax using msbuild?
2nd Are there ohter reasons for this error?

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MSBuild is called in another project as a PostBuildEvent with the line:
CommandoLine="msbuild ..\..\Path\Project
Now I've discovered that this line in two cases led to
msbuild Project on Command Prompt and in four other cases (in each case "Project" is a different File) it led to
msbuild ..\..\Path\Project on Command Prompt which didn't return an error.
In every case the specific file exist (all files are in the same directory).
I don't believe in computers doing different things with the same command so what is wrong there?
Is it possible that the path from wich is generated is changed by msbuild?

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Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards

Posted 23-Mar-11 3:48am

Apfelmuuus

Updated 23-Mar-11 5:09am

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Sandeep Mewara 23-Mar-11 10:44am

I guess it's relative path formation error only. Try changing it a little.

Apfelmuuus 23-Mar-11 11:06am

What can I place instead of "..\"?
I don't have an idea!

Sandeep Mewara 23-Mar-11 11:10am

I mean... try:
"..\..\..\Path\Project"
OR
"..\Path\Project"
some variation to check if it works. Totally brute force it is - I know.

Apfelmuuus 23-Mar-11 11:23am

No I'm confused!

I tried what you said directly on the command prompt ("msbuild "..\..\..\Path\Project") and it led to the same error.

But then I tried "msbuild ..\..\Path\Project" and it works although

CommandoLine="msbuild ..\..\Path\Project in the other project still returns an error.

Sandeep Mewara 23-Mar-11 11:29am

Try Hans suggestion.

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Hans Dietrich · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-23T05:27:00

Solution 1

Right before that line, issue the command 'dir' to display the current directory. This will tell you where msbuild thinks it's at.

Posted 23-Mar-11 5:27am

Hans Dietrich

Updated 23-Mar-11 5:48am

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Apfelmuuus 23-Mar-11 12:26pm

That would be a good idea. Hope it works. I'll try tomorrow.
Regards.

Apfelmuuus 24-Mar-11 4:32am

All right it showed that the path wasn't changed while building, however I found at random what was wrong. There was another call of msbuild without the relative path, so the first call was ignored.
Although many thanks.

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