I have just come across this problem as more members of our team commit without their solution file, we add the file to the solution independently, they belatedly commit their solution file and Team Foundation Server/Visual Studio Online completely fails to get the merge right. Some files added twice, some not added at all, everyone … Read more
For differentiating between Windows & Mac/Linux you can use the $(os) property: this gives you Windows_NT for Windows and UNIX for Mac/Linux. For differentiating between Mac & Linux, at least on recent versions of MSBuild, you can use RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform. So, combined, your csproj can have something like this: <ItemGroup> <Content Include=”libNative.dll” Condition=” ‘$(OS)’ == ‘Windows_NT’ … Read more
You can resolve this MVC compile issue by adding the following element to your web.config file: <add assembly=”System.Data.Entity.Design, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089″ /> This will tell the compiler where to find that missing type.
Where does SpaRoot get set? SpaRoot is set as a property in the project by the template. Projects contain a “static” portion; that is root-level PropertyGroup and ItemGroup elements. Note that properties are like a global key-value dictionary (and whenever an XML node in a PropertyGroup defines a property, it overwrites existing ones with the … Read more
What is the difference between update and include? According to this document: Usage: Include attribute => The file or wildcard to include in the list of items. Update attribute => Enables you to modify metadata of a file that was included by using a glob. Working Scope: Include attribute: 1.Works for both normal .net framewrok(non-sdk … Read more
The documentation for the tasks included in MSBuild is here, with a page specifically on the copy task. Sadly, there are many features of the .NET SDK that aren’t documented and probably only useful in special scenarios. I find myself looking at the source code of MSBuild, the .NET MSBuild SDK and the Web Sdk … Read more
It seems to be the difference between Normal (Workstation) and Concurrent (Server) Garbage Collection strategies. Basically the Workstation approach runs into issues in many extreme cases. And massively Multithreaded scenarios (like ASP Webservers) are prime examples of such an extreme case: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/286d8c7f-87ca-46b9-9608-2b559d7dc79f/garbage-collection-pros-and-limits?forum=csharpgeneral Note that concurrent GC has natural issues with weak references and defragmentation, but … Read more
Summing up the above mentioned answers and also adding one point to it. To exclude a project from SonarQube Analysis from csproj we can achieve by adding the below code in .csproj of that project <PropertyGroup> <!– Exclude the project from analysis –> <SonarQubeExclude>true</SonarQubeExclude> </PropertyGroup> To exclude a file from a project <ItemGroup> <SonarQubeSetting Include=”sonar.coverage.exclusions”> … Read more
An alternative is to use the AfterTargets attribute on the Target. Something like: <Target Name=”TestTarget” AfterTargets=”Build”> <Message Importance=”High” Text=”This is a test” /> </Target> I’m not sure why “AfterBuild” wouldn’t work any more, but this appears to be a conscious decision by the maintainers of MSBuild (h/t to Livven on pointing me to this github … Read more
I’m editing my answer to make it clear that you don’t need to upgrade your .csproj file. As Drew commented below there are benefits to doing so. However, VS2017 will continue to work with the classic csproj file just fine. In addition there is nothing in VS2017 that will perform the upgrade for you. If … Read more