What does the error "the exec task needs a command to execute" mean?
Ken Egozi has found an answer.
The message is caused by stray newline characters in pre or post build commands.
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And here is a pertinent quote from the blog:
"After pooling out a few hairs, I remembers that I recently have edited the pre-build actions for this project.
Looking this up, I found that I left a spare newline at the end of the pre-build script. So VS2005 sent msbuild an order to run an empty command."