Automating deploy using Msbuild

Question

I’m creating a bat to compile and publish a Visual Studio project using MSBuild.

However, I need to inform a user and password for the MSBuild. What I am doing, is to solitar in the bat the user and password. However, I would not like to see the password when typing in cmd. Basically it would be as it is already the net use that when necessary it asks user and password.

@echo off
set /p username="UserName: "
set /p password="Password: "
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe Syns.sln /p:Configuration=Produção;DeployOnBuild=true;PublishProfile=prod.pubxml /MaxCpuCount:8 /p:AllowUntrustedCertificate=True /p:UserName=%username% /p:Password=%password%

Following @rray’s reply I rewrote the script using powershell, now I can get the password in a more secure way

Write-Host "UserName:"
$username = Read-Host

Write-Host "Password:"
$password = Read-Host -AsSecureString
$password = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto([System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($password))


$msbuild = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe"
$collectionOfArgs = @("D:\Projetos\Syns\Syns\Syns.sln", 
                      "/p:Configuration=Prod;DeployOnBuild=true;PublishProfile=prod.pubxml", 
                      "/MaxCpuCount:8", 
                      "/p:AllowUntrustedCertificate=True", 
                      "/p:UserName=$username", 
                      "/p:Password=$password")

& $msbuild $collectionOfArgs

Answer 1

An alternative with powershell is to request the input value to add the argument -AsSecureString. Testing on ISE will open an input box but as a script the characters will be replaced by asterisks.

Write-Host "Informe sua senha:"
$senhaCodificada = Read-Host -AsSecureString
$senhaTextoPuro = [Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto([Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($senhaCodificada))

Based on:

Powershell Securestring Encrypt/Decrypt To Plain Text Not Working

How can I use powershell’s read-host Function to Accept a password for an External service?