Utilities Class

Contains utility methods used by MSBuild. This class cannot be inherited.

MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.Utilities

Namespace:  Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine
Assembly:  Microsoft.Build.Engine (in Microsoft.Build.Engine.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public NotInheritable Class Utilities
public static class Utilities
public ref class Utilities abstract sealed
[<AbstractClass>]
[<Sealed>]
type Utilities =  class end
public final class Utilities

The Utilities type exposes the following members.

Methods

  Name Description
Public methodStatic member Escape Converts the specified string into a syntax that allows the MSBuild engine to interpret the character literally.MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.

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Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

See Also

Reference

Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine Namespace