GetAssemblyIdentity Task 

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Retrieves the assembly identities from the specified files and outputs the identity information.

Task Parameters

The following table describes the parameters of the GetAssemblyIdentity task.

Parameter Description

Assemblies

Optional ITaskItem[] output parameter.

Contains the retrieved assembly identities.

AssemblyFiles

Required ITaskItem[] parameter.

Specifies the files to retrieve identities from.

Remarks

The items output by the Assemblies parameter contain item metadata entries named Version, PublicKeyToken, and Culture.

Example

The following example retrieves the identity of the files specified in the MyAssemblies item, and outputs them into the MyAssemblyIdentities item.

<Project xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">

    <ItemGroup>
        <MyAssemblies Include="File1.dll;File2.dll" />
    </ItemGroup>

    <Target Name="RetrieveIdentities>
        <GetAssemblyIdentity
            AssemblyFiles="@(MyAssemblies)"
            <Output
                TaskParameter="Assemblies"
                ItemName="MyAssemblyIdentities"
    </Target>

</Project>

See Also

Concepts

MSBuild Tasks

Other Resources

MSBuild Task Reference