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MSBuild Class
Visual Studio 2010
This API supports the .NET Framework infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code.
Implements the MSBuild task. Use the MSBuild element in your project file to create and execute this task. For usage and parameter information, see MSBuild Task.
System::Object
Microsoft.Build.Utilities::Task
Microsoft.Build.Tasks::TaskExtension
Microsoft.Build.Tasks::MSBuild
Microsoft.Build.Utilities::Task
Microsoft.Build.Tasks::TaskExtension
Microsoft.Build.Tasks::MSBuild
Assembly: Microsoft.Build.Tasks.v4.0 (in Microsoft.Build.Tasks.v4.0.dll)
The MSBuild type exposes the following members.
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | BuildEngine | Gets or sets the instance of the IBuildEngine object used by the task. (Inherited from Task.) |
![]() | BuildEngine2 | Gets the instance of the IBuildEngine2 object used by the task. (Inherited from Task.) |
![]() | BuildEngine3 | Gets the instance of the IBuildEngine3 object used by the task. (Inherited from Task.) |
![]() | BuildInParallel | Infrastructure. Gets or sets a Boolean value that specifies whether the projects specified in the Projects property are built in parallel, if possible. |
![]() | HelpKeywordPrefix | Gets or sets the prefix used to compose Help keywords from resource names. (Inherited from Task.) |
![]() | HostObject | Gets or sets the host object associated with the task. (Inherited from Task.) |
![]() | Log | Infrastructure. Gets an instance of a TaskLoggingHelperExtension containing task logging methods. (Inherited from TaskExtension.) |
![]() | Projects | Infrastructure. Gets or sets the project files to build. |
![]() | Properties | Infrastructure. Gets or sets a semicolon-delimited list of property name/value pairs to apply as global properties to the child project. |
![]() | RebaseOutputs | Infrastructure. Gets or sets a Boolean value that specifies whether the relative paths of target output items from the built projects have their paths adjusted to be relative to the calling project. |
![]() | RemoveProperties | Gets or sets the set of global properties to remove. |
![]() | RunEachTargetSeparately | Infrastructure. Gets or sets a Boolean value that specifies whether the MSBuild task invokes each target in the list passed to MSBuild one at a time, instead of at the same time. |
![]() | SkipNonexistentProjects | Infrastructure. Gets or sets a Boolean value that specifies whether project files that do not exist on the disk will be skipped. |
![]() | StopOnFirstFailure | Infrastructure. Gets or sets a Boolean value that specifies whether the task should stop building the remaining projects as soon as any one of them may not work. |
![]() | TargetAndPropertyListSeparators | Infrastructure. Gets or sets the escape characters to be unescaped from the specified Properties and Targets. |
![]() | TargetOutputs | Infrastructure. Returns the outputs of the built targets from all the project files. Only the outputs from the targets that were specified are returned, not any outputs that may exist on targets that those targets depend on. |
![]() | Targets | Infrastructure. Gets or sets the target or targets to build in the project files. Use a semicolon to separate a list of target names. |
![]() | TaskResources | Gets or sets the culture-specific resources associated with the task. (Inherited from Task.) |
![]() | ToolsVersion | Infrastructure. Gets or sets a target .NET Framework version to build the project with, which enables an MSBuild task to build a project that targets a different version of the .NET Framework than the one specified in the project. Valid values are 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5. |
![]() | UnloadProjectsOnCompletion | Infrastructure. Gets or sets a Boolean value that specifies whether the project will be unloaded once the operation is completed. |
![]() | UseResultsCache | Infrastructure. Gets or sets a Boolean value that indicates whether the MSBuild engine will return the built targets from the cache. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | Equals(Object) | Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | Execute | Infrastructure. Instructs the MSBuild engine to build one or more project files whose locations are specified by the Projects property. (Overrides Task::Execute().) |
![]() | Finalize | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | GetHashCode | Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | ToString | Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.) |
Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
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