The Visual Studio setup engine builds both managed and native projects. Some managed projects even target .NET Framework 3.5 to provide a better downlevel experience where 4.5 is not (yet) present. Because of that, we start from the microsoft/dotnet-framework:3.5-sdk-windowsservercore-1709 base image. We use RS3 because the same image can be used on Windows Server 2016 nodes that do not yet support RS4 containers.
To build this image from this direectory, run:
docker build -t buildtools2017:latest -m 2GB .To map and build managed and native sources from a clean source repository, run:
docker run -m 2G -v %CD%:C:\src buildtools2017:latest msbuild /m c:\src\Solution.sln- If the repository is not clean and the mapped directory is not on the same drive or the same path as the host directory, native project builds will fail with a front-end compiler error.