How to build installshield project using devenv bypassing MSbuild in the build template?

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Visual Studio Premium 2012

Recently added installshield project for my solution in order to generate setup.exe. Manually when I build, everything seems to be working and setup.exe generated under bin.

Problem : When I trigger the build using TFS 2012 build, setup.exe is not generated under the drop folder and in log files I see that installshield project was not being built with MSbuild.

Log Error: .isproj is not supported by MSBuild and cannot be built

On further analysis and research I found that MS build does not support certain project types. Also found an alternative here to build installshield project using devenv instead of MSbuild by modifying the workflow using build templates.

Even after following above solution I still encounter the same issue, setup.exe not generated and see the same issue in the log files.

Any help appreciated :)

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visual-studio-2012tfsmsbuildinstallshield
Have you configured the InstallShield project to be built by a 32-bit build context? InstallShield's build code is native 32-bit, but has supported MSBuild (and by extension TFS) for years. – Michael Urman

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is the configuration and platform that you are specifying in the call to Devenv, set to build the install project? Have a look at the solution build config for the settings you are passing and ensure that the install project is ticked (set to build) for that configuration and platform