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Integrating the upload with a Visual Studio project

You can integrate the call to the Upload Assembly Tool as a post-build event in Visual Studio so that the command line call is automatically executed after a build.

Procedure

  1. Start Visual Studio and open the Visual Studio Project you use to build your .NET assembly.
  2. From the Project menu, select <projectname> Properties from the main menu, where <projectname> is the name of the project. The properties tab for this project opens.
  3. Select the Build Events item on the tab, and under Post-build event command line, enter the following:
    c:\SDL Tridion\TCMUploadAssembly.exe <config.xml> "$(TargetPath)"

    where c:\SDL Tridion\ is the path to the TCMUploadAssembly.exe upload tool, and <config.xml> is the path and filename of your configuration file. If needed, add one or more command line parameters to this command (see Running the Upload Assembly tool).

  4. Close the properties tab. A new build of this project will now always cause the command you entered to be executed; that is, to create or update a Template Building Block in the Content Manager.