Devenv.com returned Error code : 255

FinalBuilder Discussion
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Hi,

We have recently installed FinalBuilder 7 on our build server. We are not using FinalBuilder Server. Instead we are using CCNet to force builds of the projects and to maintain continuous integration.

4 out of 5 times our builds are failing with the following error:

devenv.com returned Error code : 255

The visual studio build stops immediately after that. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

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Can someone respond to the question, pls?

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Hi Ingrid,

You haven’t provided us with much information to go with to help you find what is causing the problem, we need to know which versions of FinalBuilder and VS you’re using, what you are compiling, what the output from VS was, whether it’s reproducible every time, whether it happens when compiling the project with devenv.com outside of FinalBuilder?

Regards,
Paul.

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Final Builder version is 7.0.0.1065. We are NOT using final builder server to start the builds. Instead we are using CCNet.
Visual Studio version is 2010 SP1
We are building a .NET 4.0 solution and the build abruptly ends with error message “devenv.com returned Error code : 255”
This is reproducible every time. This error does NOT happen when running from Visual Studio IDE.

Please let me know if you need more information.

Thanks.

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Hi Ingrid,

You still have not provided us with enough information that we can use to help you track down the cause of the problem. Visual Studio returning 255 does not give us any indication as to what the problem is, we need you to provide the requested information for us to help you.

It may be worth increasing the log detail level in the VS action so that the build log contains detailed information from VS.

You will also need to do a bit of a leg work to figure out in which circumstances this error occurs, i.e.

- Is it only when it is run under CC.Net?
- Does it occur when run from the FB IDE?
- Do you see the error when running the project using devenv.com (this is from the command line, not using the VS IDE)?
- Which projects types are you trying to build? We have seen some cases where certain Visual Studio project types fail to build when run without a desktop session (typical environment when a project is run under a continuous integration server).

Also, please update to the latest version of FinalBuilder (https://www.finalbuilder.com/download.aspx

Regards,
Paul.