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<font size="+3" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"><strong>Vbc
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<br><font face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">This task compiles Visual Basic.NET source into executables or modules.</font>
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This task compiles Visual Basic.NET source into executables or modules. The task requires vbc.exe on the execute path, unless it or an equivalent program is specified in the <tt>executable</tt> parameter <p> All parameters are optional: <vbc/> should suffice to produce a debug build of all *.vb files. <p> The task is a directory based task, so attributes like <tt>includes="**\/*.vb"</tt> and <tt>excludes="broken.vb"</tt> can be used to control the files pulled in. By default, all *.vb files from the project folder down are included in the command. When this happens the destFile -if not specified- is taken as the first file in the list, which may be somewhat hard to control. Specifying the output file with <tt>destfile</tt> is prudent. </p> <p> Also, dependency checking only works if destfile is set. As with <csc> nested <tt>src</tt> filesets of source, reference filesets, definitions and resources can be provided. <p> Example </p> <pre><vbc optimize="true" debug="false" warnLevel="4" targetType="exe" definitions="RELEASE" excludes="src/unicode_class.vb" mainClass = "MainApp" destFile="NetApp.exe" optionExplicit="true" optionCompare="text" references="System.Xml,System.Web.Xml" > <reference file="${testCSC.dll}" /> <define name="RELEASE" /> <define name="DEBUG" if="debug.property"/> <define name="def3" unless="def2.property"/> </vbc> </pre>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"><b>Description</b></font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"><b>Type</b></font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"><b>Requirement</b></font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">additionalmodules</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Semicolon separated list of modules to refer to.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">String</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Optional</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">set the debug flag on or off.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">boolean</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">destdir</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Set the destination directory of files to be compiled.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">File</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">destfile</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Set the name of exe/library to create.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">File</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">executable</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">set the name of the program, overriding the defaults. Can be used to set the full path to a program, or to switch to an alternate implementation of the command, such as the Mono or Rotor versions -provided they use the same command line arguments as the .NET framework edition</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Any extra options which are not explicitly supported by this task.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">If true, fail on compilation errors.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">boolean</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">imports</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Declare global imports for namespaces in referenced metadata files.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">includedefaultreferences</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">If true, automatically includes the common assemblies in dotnet, and tells the compiler to link in mscore.dll. set the automatic reference inclusion flag on or off this flag controls the /nostdlib option in CSC</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">boolean</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Sets the name of main class for executables.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">optimize</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">If true, enables optimization flag.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Specify binary- or text-style string comparisons. Defaults to "binary"</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Whether to require explicit declaration of variables.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Enforce strict language semantics.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Path of references to include. Wildcards should work.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">references</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Semicolon separated list of DLLs to refer to.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Whether to remove integer checks. Default false.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Specifies the root namespace for all type declarations.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Set the source directory of the files to be compiled.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">set the target type to one of exe|library|module|winexe</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">"exe", "library", "module", "winexe"</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">If true, require all compiler output to be in UTF8 format.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Level of warning currently between 1 and 4 with 4 being the strictest.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Set the filename of icon to include.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Sets the filename of a win32 resource (.RES) file to include. This is not a .NET resource, but what Windows is used to.</font>
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add a define to the list of definitions
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add a new reference fileset to the compilation
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link or embed a resource
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add a new source directory to the compile
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