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<title>MSBuild Task</title> |
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<h2><a name="dotnetexec">MSBuild</a></h2> |
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<h3>Description</h3> |
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<p>Runs the MSBuild build tool presented at the 2003 PDC. This |
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task is completely untested as the developers have no access to |
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the tool, it has been implemented by looking at the docs only.</p> |
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<p>You can either use an existing build file or nest a build file |
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(snippet) as a child into the task. If you don't specify either, |
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MSBuild's default build file search algorithm will apply. Nesting |
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build file snippets is most probably not working correctly.</p> |
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<h3>Parameters</h3> |
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<td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td> |
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<td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td> |
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<td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td> |
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<td valign="top">buildfile</td> |
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<td valign="top">External build file to invoke MSBuild on.</td> |
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<td align="center">No.</td> |
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<td valign="top">vm</td> |
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<td valign="top">Same as <a |
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href="dotnetexec.html">dotnetexec</a>'s vm attribute. |
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Specify the framework to use.</td> |
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<td align="center">No.</td> |
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<h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3> |
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<h4>target</h4> |
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<p><code>target</code> has a single required attribute name - |
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specifies a target to be run.</p> |
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<h4>property</h4> |
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<p><code>property</code> has two required attributes. name and |
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value that specify name and value of a property that is to be |
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defined in the MSBuild invocation.</p> |
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<h4>build</h4> |
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<p>This element allows no attributes. You can nest a MSBuild build |
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file into it and MSBuild will be executed on that. You can also nest |
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a build file snippet instead and Ant will wrap the necessary MSBuild |
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<code><Project> around it.</code></p> |
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<h3>Examples</h3> |
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<p>Let MSBuild search for a *.proj file in the (Ant) project's base |
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directory and execute the default target in it:</p> |
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<pre><msbuild/></pre> |
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<p>Let MSBuild execute the targets named foo and bar in the build |
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file msbuild.proj in Ant's basedir and pass the property |
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<code>/property:test=testvalue</code> to it:</p> |
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<msbuild buildfile="msbuild.proj"> |
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<target name="foo"/> |
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<target name="bar"/> |
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<property name="test" value="testvalue"/> |
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</msbuild> |
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</pre> |
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<p>Define a build file embeded into the task, let MSBuild execute the |
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echo target of that build file.</p> |
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<msbuild> |
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<target name="echo"> |
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<build> |
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<Project DefaultTargets="empty"> |
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<Target Name="empty"/> |
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<Target Name="echo"> |
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<Task Name="Echo" Message="This is MSBuild"/> |
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</Target> |
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</Project> |
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</build> |
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</msbuild> |
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</pre> |
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<p>Run MSBuild's Echo task (if there actually is one):</p> |
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<msbuild> |
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<build> |
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<Task Name="Echo" Message="This is MSBuild"/> |
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</build> |
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</msbuild> |
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</pre> |
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<p align="center">Copyright © 2003 Apache Software Foundation. All rights Reserved.</p> |
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