From @dealproc via Twitter:

Is there any way to build something with the Azure sdk 2.6 without needing to install it on a build server?

Twitter conversation: https://twitter.com/dealproc/status/636678496937361408

Thanks,

@AzureSupport

• Edited by Joyce Lee Microsoft (MSFT CSG) 18 hours 1 minutes ago
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Right, so here's the premise:

TeamCity is used for a CI build system.  We typically do not like installing much past the .net framework and msbuild on our build servers due to having libs that are floating around, and like to keep things neatly packed.  Also too, we have about 15 other projects building right now, and do not want any issues with those packages building due to the introduction of an installed sdk on the build machines.

Digging into the targets files, etc., the targets file seems to be reading values from the registry to set itself up.  Someone else on my team decided to dig into it a bit, and discovered that *there may be a way* to make changes to this file in order to circumvent the need for the registry entries, but I am uncomfortable with this need.

Is there anything available that we can take advantage of to do a CI build without needing to install the Azure SDK on our build machines?  A nuget package perhaps?

--Richard