visual studio - Post build event depending on configuration name in new ASP.NET 5 project

Question

I'm writing a unified project for 3 smart TVs. I have also 3 configurations created in Visual Studio. Now I want to execute some CLI scripts depending on selected configuration.

The problem is in new ASP.NET 5 project I don't have an editor for post build events.

I know I have to do this in project.json. What I found is:

  "scripts": {
    "postbuild": ""
  }

But using this one I can't create different CLI scripts for different configurations.

I found also:

  "configurations": {
  },

And I guess this is probably what I want, but... How to use it? Intellisense has no power here and also I wasn't lucky searching the Web...

[edit]

Maybe I should try with .xproj?

Answer 1

You'll need to build a master script which uses the available context and environment variables to switch and run the other scripts of your choice.

In addition to the list of variables Here for compile, you also get these for publish related scripts and then these are available everywhere, as are environment variables returned by Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable, which can be seen here.

The image below shows the intellisense from the VS2015 Update 3 RTM, but it's misleading, since you get others depending on the script block you're using:

So, your full list of context variables that you can use to control flow in your scripts is:

Every script block:

• %project:Directory%
• %project:Name%
• %project:Version%

Compile specific:

• %compile:TargetFramework%
• %compile:FullTargetFramework%
• %compile:Configuration%
• %compile:OutputFile%
• %compile:OutputDir%
• %compile:ResponseFile%
• %compile:RuntimeOutputDir% (only available if there is runtime output)
• %compile:RuntimeIdentifier% (only availabe if there is runtime output)
• %comiple:CompilerExitCode% (only available in the postcompile script block)

Publish specific:

• %publish:ProjectPath%
• %publish:Configuration%
• %publish:OutputPath%
• %publish:TargetFramework%
• %publish:FullTargetFramework%
• %publish:Runtime%