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Friday, May 04, 2007 11:25 PM

New Registry syntax in MSBuild v3.5

During development of the multi-targeting feature of the next version of MSBuild, we found it convenient to expose a new method for accessing the registry from project and target files. I hadn't really thought much more about it since we implemented it,
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Thursday, April 12, 2007 7:16 PM

New Reference Assemblies Location

Those of you who've been using the 3.0 Framework may have noticed a folder under Program Files called "Reference Assemblies". This folder contains those assemblies that ship with the 3.0 Framework which are useful for referencing during the design and
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Tuesday, November 08, 2005 11:09 PM

Restrictions on the Exclude attribute in an item tag

An item exclude only works with the corresponding include on the same actual item tag-- in other words, if the exclude occurs in a later item tag of the same type, it will not affect any files previously included. For example: suppose you have files a.cs,
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Friday, October 14, 2005 8:00 PM

what happens before msbuild decides to build a target?

there are several elements to processing a target tag: processing its dependencies, processing the condition, and performing TLDA (top level dependency analysis) or up-to-date checks. it can be confusing to figure out if a target will execute or not,
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