Clean and Build a solution without using Visual Studio

Question

How can I perform these 2 tasks without opening Visual Studio:

Clean a Solution.
Build a Solution.

The Solution may be using .NET Standard and/or .NET Core.

Note: I want to create a batch file in (Windows cmd or PowerShell) to perform these tasks. I may not know if the Solution is using .NET Standard or .NET Core or both.

user_14560478 · Answer

Should be able to use command line with the command

dotnet build --no-incremental

or use

dotnet clean then dotnet build separately.

Docs:

user_3776927 · Answer

For .net core you can use docs

dotnet clean

For msbuild, you can create a target Clean and then call this target from the commandline: docs

 
    


msbuild .proj -target:Clean

Clean and Build a solution without using Visual Studio

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