Setting environment variables in VS2008 Team

Question

Hi,

I am installing StyleCop onto our build & it requires two things: i) set enironment variables and ii) reference these varables from within a .csproj file.

I'd like to know how to do both of these things. I understand you can set the environment variable programmatically but I would prefer to do this from the gui or some other way if possible (config file?).

Secondly, how do I refrence this from a Project file?

These are the instructions I copied on how to set up StyleCop:

basically you set a couple of environment variables up, reference them in all the .csproj files so that you can cater for different working directories for each individual developer, install the StyleCop MSBuild components on the build machine and you're off. No changes to the team build required.

many thanks for any answers.

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@nt

Answer 1

Hi Ant,

To set environment variables, you can follow the setps in How To add or change the values of environment variables. .csproj files are MSBuild project files. To reference environment variables in an MSBuild project, please take a look at How To: Use Environment Variables in a Build.