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Using MSBuild 2.0/3.5 : Custom Task You could write a custom msbuild task like this : using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine; using Microsoft.Build.Framework; using Microsoft.Build.Utilities; namespace MSBuildTasks { public class GetAllTargets : Task { [Required] public String ProjectFile { get; set; } [Output] public ITaskItem[] Targets { get; set; } public override bool Execute() … Read more

MSBuild provides different ways to call target : MSBuild task CallTarget task DependsOnTarget target attribute BeforeTargets and AfterTargets target attributes in MSBuild 4 Using CallTarget is an explicit approach, you start at your first target and call explicitly each target in the order you want. Whereas DependsOnTargets is an implicit approach, MSBuild infers the calling … Read more

Using MSBuild command line, you can specify the output path like below: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\12.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe <path_to_project_file> /t:Build /p:OutDir=c:\custom_build_out\;Configuration=PRODUCTION;Platform=x64 Note: If you change the order of specifying the OutDir property for /p, this doesn’t work. The OutDir property is for specifying a full path to an alternate directory. OutputPath is for a relative directory. It has … Read more

The way MSBuild works when processing files is to read all files and create one in memory representation of all those files. This all happens before any target is executed. Because of this when a target is executing it has no concept of what file it was contained in. Basically you will not be able … Read more