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    <h2><a name="dotnetexec">MSBuild</a></h2>

    <h3>Description</h3>

    <p>Runs the MSBuild build tool presented at the 2003 PDC.  This
    task is completely untested as the developers have no access to
    the tool, it has been implemented by looking at the docs only.</p>

    <p>You can either use an existing build file or nest a build file
    (snippet) as a child into the task.  If you don't specify either,
    MSBuild's default build file search algorithm will apply.  Nesting
    build file snippets is most probably not working correctly.</p>

    <h3>Parameters</h3>
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      <tr>
        <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
        <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
        <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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        <td valign="top">buildfile</td>
        <td valign="top">External build file to invoke MSBuild on.</td>
        <td align="center">No.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td valign="top">vm</td>
        <td valign="top">Same as <a
            href="dotnetexec.html">dotnetexec</a>'s vm attribute.
          Specify the framework to use.</td>
        <td align="center">No.</td>
      </tr>
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    <h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3>
    <h4>target</h4>

    <p><code>target</code> has a single required attribute name -
    specifies a target to be run.</p>

    <h4>property</h4>

    <p><code>property</code> has two required attributes.  name and
    value that specify name and value of a property that is to be
    defined in the MSBuild invocation.</p>

    <h4>build</h4>

    <p>This element allows no attributes.  You can nest a MSBuild build
    file into it and MSBuild will be executed on that.  You can also nest
    a build file snippet instead and Ant will wrap the necessary MSBuild
    <code>&lt;Project&gt; around it.</code></p>

    <h3>Examples</h3>

    <p>Let MSBuild search for a *.proj file in the (Ant) project's base
    directory and execute the default target in it:</p>

    <pre>&lt;msbuild/&gt</pre>
    
    <p>Let MSBuild execute the targets named foo and bar in the build
    file msbuild.proj in Ant's basedir and pass the property
    <code>/property:test=testvalue</code> to it:</p>

    <pre>
      &lt;msbuild buildfile="msbuild.proj"&gt;
        &lt;target name="foo"/&gt;
        &lt;target name="bar"/&gt;
        &lt;property name="test" value="testvalue"/&gt;
      &lt;/msbuild&gt;
    </pre>

    <p>Define a build file embeded into the task, let MSBuild execute the
    echo target of that build file.</p>

    <pre>
      &lt;msbuild&gt;
        &lt;target name="echo"&gt;
        &lt;build&gt;
          &lt;Project DefaultTargets="empty"&gt;
            &lt;Target Name="empty"/&gt;
            &lt;Target Name="echo"&gt;
              &lt;Task Name="Echo" Message="This is MSBuild"/&gt;
            &lt;/Target&gt;
          &lt;/Project&gt;
        &lt;/build&gt;
      &lt;/msbuild&gt;
    </pre>

    <p>Run MSBuild's Echo task (if there actually is one):</p>

    <pre>
      &lt;msbuild&gt;
        &lt;build&gt;
          &lt;Task Name="Echo" Message="This is MSBuild"/&gt;
        &lt;/build&gt;
      &lt;/msbuild&gt;
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      <p align="center">Copyright &copy; 2003 Apache Software Foundation. All rights Reserved.</p>
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