Moving to VS2010 caused build server to break - errorMSB3454, MSB3454

Damien McGivern — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:17:00 GMT

Last night I migrated one of our solutions which contained many dlls projects and a couple of websites from VS2008 SP1 to VS2010, after a few changed to the website configuration the solution was building as expected on my machine.

Committing the changes forced a new build on our build server (CruiseControl.NET) running on Windows Server 2008 64Bit which shortly failed with the following error:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Common.targets

errorMSB3454: Tracker.exe is required to correctly incrementally generate resources in some circumstances, such as when building on a 64-bit OS using 32-bit MSBuild. This build requires Tracker.exe, but it could not be found. The task is looking for Tracker.exe beneath the InstallationFolder value of the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A. To solve the problem, either: 1) Install the Microsoft Windows SDK v7.0A or later. 2) Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. 3) Manually set the above registry key to the correct location. Alternatively, you can turn off incremental resource generation by setting the "TrackFileAccess" property to "false".

Searching lead me a post by Brad Wilson Working Around Build Error MSB3454 which I didn't try but instead tried the solution given in one of the comments which linked to Andy Pook's post Building without Visual Studio

A quick summary of the post:

1 Install Microsoft Windows SDK v7.1 (We already had it installed in preparation for the move to VS2010 assuming it would just work)

2 Start Windows SDk 7.2 Command Prompt and enter the following

cd Setup

WindowsSdkVer –version:v7.1

3 Also remember to copy the "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0" folder to the build machine if you want to build web projects.

MSBuild now used the 7.1 SDK when building VS solution files instead of searching for 7.0A SDK, which is only installed when you install VS2010, and our build server is working again.

(Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008) Service Pack 2 Customer Preview Program (CPP)

Damien McGivern — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:58:00 GMT

Mike Nash has announced that the betas for both Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 will be released to the public shortly, however if you have a TechNet or MSDN subscription then you can access them now.

Vista SP1 & Windows Server 2008 both RTM

Damien McGivern — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:03:00 GMT

Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 have finally been RTM. For those of you also on the W2K8 beta program you will be able to download from the connect website. Unfortunately Vista SP1 hasn't been made available to beta testers on connect yet.

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/02/04/announcing-the-rtm-of-windows-vista-sp1.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2008/02/04/windows-server-2008-rtm.aspx

Damien McGivern : Windows Server 2008

Moving to VS2010 caused build server to break - errorMSB3454, MSB3454

(Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008) Service Pack 2 Customer Preview Program (CPP)

Vista SP1 & Windows Server 2008 both RTM