Top "Msbuild-task" questions

MSBuild tasks give the MSBuild platform the ability to execute any number of actions during the build process.

What is the difference between a PreBuildEvent, BeforeBuild target and BeforeCompile target in MSBuild?

I recently had to move some code from a PreBuildEvent in Visual Studio into the BeforeBuild target to make it …

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MSBuild and Webpack

I am developing an Angular2 application in VS2015 and have a webpack bundling and minification environment set up for the …

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How to check if a MSBuild-Task fails if using ContinueOnError=true

I am running the MSBuild task with ContinueOnError=true: <MSBuild Projects="@(ComponentToDeploy)" Targets="$(DeploymentTargets)" Properties="$(CommonProperties);%(AdditionalProperties)" ContinueOnError="true" …

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Building a particular revision in Jenkins Pipeline

I am using SVN as my source control repository and Jenkins as my CI tool. I run MSBuild scripts using …

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MSBuild MSBuildCommunityTasks Task Time

I have a MSBuild project and I want the current date to be added to a zip file that I …

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Injecting assembly version numbers at build time

I want to change the assembly version number of a C# project at build time by passing it as a …

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Determining outputs of a ProjectReference in MSBuild without triggering redundant rebuilds

As part of a solution containing many projects, I have a project that references (via a <ProjectReference> three …

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MSBuild custom task "Hello World" walkthrough

Can someone write (or link to) a walkthrough that explains exactly how to create a custom MSBuild task and run …

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How do I get an msbuild task to do config transforms on a collection of files?

I am trying to transform all of the web.config files in a project I have, here's a my tree …

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