Building the Solution from the Command Line

You can build the solution containing ePortal application on the command line. To do this, you must first restore the NuGet packages, and then build the solution.

To restore the NuGet packages

Type the restore command with the –source option on the nuget.exe command-line tool.

The -source option is used to specify the source for ePortal NuGet packages along with the default location for NuGet packages. For more information on restoring Nuget packages, refer to https://docs.nuget.org/consume/command-line-reference.

To build the solution

Run the Visual Studio executable (devenv) with the /build command-line switch.

This builds the solution in the command-line mode. For more information on building the solution, refer to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b20w810z.aspx.

For example, the following commands can be used to restore the NuGet packages and build the solution:

           C:\nuget\nuget.exe restore C:\MySolutionDir\MySolution.sln –source
           "C:\Program Files\Unisys\ClearPath\ePortal Developer 10.0\Packages;
           https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json" 

           "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\{PRODUCT VESION}\Common7\IDE\devenv" 
           C:\MySolutionDir\MySolution.sln /build

Notes:

On 64-bit systems, the default location for Visual Studio and ePortal Developer is in C:\Program Files (x86) and not in C:\Program Files.
When restoring NuGet packages, you must specify the package sources because the ePortal packages are hosted locally. The default location of the ePortal package repository is in the Packages subdirectory under the ePortal Developer install directory.
When you run devenv in the command-line mode, do not include the .exe extension because devenv has two extensions devenv.exe and devenv.com. Remove the extension so the .com file is selected.
The /build switch accepts a parameter which specifies the name of the solution configuration to be built. The Release configuration is recommended for production.