Sunday, 7 January 2007

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 breaks External Tools functionality

If you are wondering why some of your external tools are no longer working properly after you upgraded to Visual Studio 2005 SP1, here might be the answer: when passing the ProjectDir parameter, the SP1 adds " (double quotes) to the end of your project path. Adding a space after the $(ProjectDir) seems to fix the issue.

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