This guide describes how to use the CloudBees Build Acceleration Visual Studio Integration, which extends Visual Studio to let you build Visual Studio solutions and projects using CloudBees Build Acceleration from within the IDE.
About the CloudBees Build Acceleration® Visual Studio integration
The CloudBees Build Acceleration Visual Studio Integration is composed of two extensions and the ecdevenv.exe utility:
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Visual Studio IDE Extension
This extension integrates with the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE and lets you build Visual Studio solutions and projects using CloudBees Build Acceleration Electrify (”Electrify”) from within the IDE. The extension provides an CloudBees Build Acceleration build menu and toolbar. The existing build menu remains intact for local (non-Electrify) builds.
This is implemented as a VSPackage starting with Visual Studio 2015 and as an add-in in earlier versions of Visual Studio.
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Visual Studio Converter Extension
This extension converts solutions and projects into NMAKE makefiles for eMake compatibility. It is invoked for command-line builds (not for builds invoked from the Visual Studio IDE extension) and
ecdevenv.exe.This is implemented as a VSPackage starting with Visual Studio 2015 and as an add-in in earlier versions of Visual Studio.
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ecdevenv.exeUtilityecdevenvis a drop-in replacement fordevenv.exethat builds Visual Studio solutions and projects using eMake.ecdevenvis available only from the command line. See Using the ecdevenv.exe Utility for information.
The CloudBees Build Acceleration Visual Studio Integration can be installed automatically during the installation of CloudBees Build Acceleration.