Cloud Service Project (ccproj) wont compile with unsafe code - VSTS

Question

I have a Cloud Service project that I use to deploy my WebRole through VSTS, on a Hosted Agent.

The build definition is created with the Azure Cloud Services template, and has, amongst others, these steps:

Build solution **\*.sln (step #1)
Build solution **\*.ccproj (step #2)

I've added

<AllowUnsafeBlocks>true</AllowUnsafeBlocks>

To the .csproj file of the class library that uses unsafe code (for the release and debug configurations). I am using the release configuration when deploying.

The Build solution **\*.sln step passes, but the Build solution **\*.ccproj step fails.

By inspecting the logs, I can see that the Build solution **\*.sln step is started with the /unsafe+ parameter, however the second build step is not.

Moreover, the MSBuild arguments for step #1 are empty, but for step #2, they are:

/t:Publish /p:TargetProfile=$(targetProfile) /p:DebugType=None /p:SkipInvalidConfigurations=true /p:OutputPath=bin\ /p:PublishDir="$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)\"

How can I add this parameter to the ccproj build?

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Kenci Kenci · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-20T09:08:38

The <AllowUnsafeBlocks>true</AllowUnsafeBlocks> was added to the Release|AnyCPU condition:

  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">
    <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
    <DebugType>pdbonly</DebugType>
    <Optimize>true</Optimize>
    <OutputPath>bin\</OutputPath>
    <DefineConstants>TRACE</DefineConstants>
    <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
    <WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
    <AllowUnsafeBlocks>true</AllowUnsafeBlocks>
  </PropertyGroup>

However, when building the project with "any cpu" platform (which is default, with a space between 'any' and 'cpu') the condition does not get hit, contrary to when building a .sln project. I have to explicitly set the platform to "anycpu" without a space, and everything works. It wasnt opmitizing the code either, because of this.

Cloud Service Project (ccproj) wont compile with unsafe code - VSTS

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