C# and .NET Core Test-Driven Development

Configuration and preprocessor directives

Cake operations can be controlled through the use of environment variables, configuration files, and by passing arguments into the Cake executable file. This is based on a specified priority in which the configuration file overrides the environment variables and arguments passed into Cake, and then overrides entries defined in both environment variables and the configuration file.

For example, if you intend to specify the tool path, which is the directory that cake checks when restoring tools, you can create the CAKE_PATHS_TOOLS environment variable name and set the value to the Cake tools folder path.

When using configuration file, the file should be placed in the same directory as the build.cake ...