ResolveAssemblyReference Task 

Assemblies

Optional ITaskItem[] parameter.

Specifies the items to resolve into full paths and find dependencies. These items can either be simple or strong names.

Items passed to this parameter may have the following item metadata:

• Private: Boolean value. If true, the item is copied locally.

• HintPath: String value. Specifies the location of the file name to consider as a reference, used when {HintPathFromItem} is specified in the SearchPaths parameter.

• SpecificVersion: Boolean value. If true, the exact fusion name specified in the Include attribute of the item must be matched. If false, any assembly with the same simple name will match. When absent, the task examines the value in Include attribute of the item. If the attribute is a simple name, it behaves as if this metadata had a value of false. If the attribute is a strong name, it behaves as if this metadata had a value of true.

• ExecutableExtension: String value. When present, the resolved assembly must have this extension. When absent, .dll is considered first, followed by .exe, for each examined directory.

• SubType: String value. Only items with empty SubType metadata will be considered. Items with non-empty SubType metadata will be ignored.

• AssemblyFolderKey: String value. This metadata is supported for legacy assembly folder resolution. This key can have a syntax similar to:hklm\VendorFolderWhen set, only this particular assembly folder key will be used.

AutoUnify

Optional Boolean parameter.

If true, the resulting dependency graph is automatically treated as if there were an App.Config file passed in to the AppConfigFile parameter. This virtual

App.Config file has a bindingRedirect entry for each conflicting set of assemblies such that the highest version assembly is chosen. A consequence of this is that there will never be a warning about conflicting assemblies because every conflict will have been resolved. Each distinct remapping will result in a high priority comment indicating the old and new versions and the fact that this was done automatically because AutoUnify was true.

If false, no assembly version remapping will occur automatically. When two versions of an assembly are present, there will be a warning. Each distinct conflict between different versions of the same assembly will result in a high priority comment. After all of these comments are displayed, there will be a single warning with a unique error code and text that reads “Found conflicts between different versions of reference and dependent assemblies”.

The default value is false.

CopyLocalFiles

Optional ITaskItem[] read-only output parameter.

Returns every file in the ResolvedFiles, ResolvedDependencyFiles, RelatedFiles, SatelliteFiles, and ScatterFiles parameters that has CopyLocal item metadata with a value of true.

FindDependencies

Optional Boolean parameter.

If true, dependencies will be found. Otherwise, only primary references are found. The default value is true.

FindSatellites

Optional Boolean parameter.

If true, satellite assemblies will be found. The default value is true.

ResolvedDependencyFiles

Optional ITaskItem[] read-only output parameter.

Contains the nth order paths to dependencies. This parameter does not include first order primary references, which are contained in the ResolvedFiles parameter.

The items in this parameter contain the following item metadata:

• CopyLocal: Boolean value. Indicates whether the given reference should be copied to the output directory.

• FusionName: String value. Specifies the fusion name for this dependency.

• ResolvedFrom: String value. Specifies the literal search path that this file was resolved from.

SatelliteFiles

Optional ITaskItem[] read-only output parameter.

Specifies any satellite files found. These will be CopyLocal=true if the reference or dependency that caused this item to exist is CopyLocal=true.

The items in this parameter contain the following item metadata:

• CopyLocal: Boolean value. Indicates whether the given reference should be copied to the output directory. This value is true if the reference or dependency that caused this item to exist has a CopyLocal value of true.

• DestinationSubDirectory: String value. Specifies the relative destination directory to copy this item to.

SearchPaths

Required String[] parameter.

Specifies the directories or special locations that are searched to find the files on disk that represent the assemblies. The order in which the search paths are listed is important. For each assembly, the list of paths is searched from left to right. When a file that represents the assembly is found, that search stops and the search for the next assembly starts.

This parameter can take the following types of values:

• A directory path.

• {HintPathFromItem}: Specifies that the task will examine the HintPath metadata of the base item.

• {CandidateAssemblyFiles}: Specifies that the task will examine the files passed in through the CandidateAssemblyFiles parameter.

• {Registry:_AssemblyFoldersBase_, _RuntimeVersion_, _AssemblyFoldersSuffix_}:

• {AssemblyFolders}: Specifies the task will use the Visual Studio .NET 2003 finding-assemblies-from-registry scheme.

• {GAC}: Specifies the task will search in the GAC.

• {RawFileName}: Specifies the task will consider the Include value of the item to be an exact path and file name.

StateFile

Optional String parameter.

Specifies al file name that indicates where to save the intermediate build state for this task.

TargetFrameworkDirectories

Optional String[] parameter.

Specifies the path to the target framework directory. This parameter is required to determine the CopyLocal status for resulting items.

If this parameter is not specified, no resulting items will be have a CopyLocal value of true unless they explicitly have a Private metadata value of true on their source item.