Property values received from the command line override property values set in the project file and environment variables. Certain characters have special meaning in MSBuild project files. Change the Message task to show the value of the Configuration property with special characters to make it more readable.
For more information, see MSBuild special characters. An item is a piece of information, typically a file name, that is used as an input to the build system. For example, a collection of items representing source files might be passed to a task named Compile to compile them into an assembly. All items are child elements of ItemGroup elements. The item name is the name of the child element, and the item value is the value of the Include attribute of the child element. The values of items with the same name are collected into item types of that name.
The item type Compile has two values: Program. The following code creates the same item type by declaring both files in one Include attribute, separated by a semicolon.
For more information, see Items. File paths are relative to the folder containing the MSBuild project file, even if the project file is an imported project file. There are a few exceptions to this, such as when using Import and UsingTask elements. To get the values of an item type, use the following syntax, where ItemType is the name of the item type:.
To change the separator of an item type, use the following syntax, where ItemType is the item type and Separator is a string of one or more separating characters:. For more examples, see How to: Select the files to build. This is equivalent to the following line:. For more examples, see How to: Exclude files from the build. The Exclude attribute only affects the items added by the Include attribute in the item element that contains them both.
Items may contain metadata in addition to the information gathered from the Include and Exclude attributes. This metadata can be used by tasks that require more information about items than just the item value.
Item metadata is declared in the project file by creating an element with the name of the metadata as a child element of the item. An item can have zero or more metadata values. To get the metadata value of an item type, use the following syntax, where ItemType is the name of the item type and MetaDataName is the name of the metadata:.
Notice how the phrase "Compile. DependentUpon" appears several times. The use of metadata with this syntax within a target causes "batching". Batching means that the tasks within the target are executed once for each unique metadata value.
This is the MSBuild script equivalent of the common "for loop" programming construct. For more information, see Batching. Whenever an item is added to an item list, that item is assigned some well-known metadata. For a complete list of well-known metadata, see Well-known item metadata.
It was however not necessary to append "Packages" on the end, that was another mistake in my original script. I followed the answer from Jeremy D, but that gave the error message: error MSB Could not find required file 'setup. The reason is that the path to the bootstrapper at least with V8. To find out the packages folder, open this, read the "Path" registry value, and append "Packages" on the end and that should give you the full path to the folder you want.
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Asked 13 years ago. Active 7 years ago. Viewed 25k times. I want to copy WinSdk at some custom folder And then I want MDBuild to refer that folder while building. Did you check Native multi-targeting feature of Visual studio which is the ability of the latest IDE to build using tool sets installed by previous versions of Visual Studio VS and up. I believe the behavior that you are expecting is quite impossible in MS build.
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