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Friday, October 19, 2007 7:34 PM

Manifest resource names changed for .resources files

Juergen Bayer notified us of an issue introduced in MSBuild in .NET 3.5 "Orcas". The problem is if you have any items of type EmbeddedResource in your project file that are actually .resources format, rather than the usual .resx. In other words, for some
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007 9:57 PM

Multitargeting against .NET 2.0

If you're using the new VS 2008 multitargeting features to target .NET 2.0 you should be aware that in VS 2008 they have a limitation related to service packs. In .NET 2.0 SP1, the CLR team has added a few types to existing .NET 2.0 assemblies. For example,
Posted by msbuild | 2 Comments
Wednesday, January 03, 2007 6:33 PM

Fixing invalid version number problems with the AssemblyInfoTask

The arrival of 2007 bought a flurry of e-mails to the MSBuild team from people having trouble with the AssemblyInfoTask. The symptom is simple to describe - the builds start to fail with the following error: Error emitting 'System.Reflection.AssemblyVersionAttribute'
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 4:55 PM

/p property values are immutable - (sort of)....

Hello there - sorry for the long absence, but we're back and hopefully I'll keep this going again. So there was a recent forum post about how property values that are specified from the command line are immutable - i.e. it is not straightforward to change
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006 12:46 AM

Well Known Limitation: Dynamic items and properties not emitted until target execution completes

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi has written about a restriction that he ran into when using CreateProperty and CreateItem tasks to dynamically emit properties and items. The issue has to do with not being able to access items and properties that are created within
Posted by msbuild | 8 Comments
 
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