https://github.com/ho-cooh/msbuild-inline-task-demo

A demo about running C# code in msbuild
https://github.com/ho-cooh/msbuild-inline-task-demo

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A demo about running C# code in msbuild

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ho-cooh/msbuild-inline-task-demo
• Owner: HO-COOH
• Created: 2023-10-15T18:02:29.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-10-16T18:18:58.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-30T08:23:46.783Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: csharp, csproj, dotnet, msbuild, nuget, vcxproj, visual-studio
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• Size: 7.81 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# MSBuild Inline Task demo

This demo shows how to display a WPF window using `MSBuild` files only.

The real usage is to modify stuff with C# code during build process, which you can utilize from a nuget library that you automatically modify something in the consuming project after installing it.

## How?

### Using directly in build file (`csproj` / `vcxproj`)

- Define a `UsingTask` to a `.targets` or `.vcxproj` or `.csproj` file

```xml

    

        

    

    

        

        

        

        

        

        

    

 

      

```

- Add a `` in that same file, and the thing inside it **varies** depending on your project type, if it's a C++ project (`.vcxproj` file), the following code execute the code **before** builds.

```xml

    

        $(BeforeMidlCompileTargets);

        Demo  

    

```

### Using with `.targets` file

Just add a `` node as a child of the `` (which will be automatically added if there is one in your nuget package).

```xml

    

```

## Result

Open a `Developer Powershell`, run `msbuild.exe`, and you shall see this.

![image](https://github.com/HO-COOH/MsBuild-Inline-Task-Demo/assets/42881734/bf728bc8-b6a7-45b0-b452-94601f7be8e6)

## More info

- [msbuild file schema](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/msbuild/msbuild-project-file-schema-reference?view=vs-2022)

- [The very hard to find msbuild api doc](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/?view=msbuild-17-netcore)