MSBuild Wish List


Here's where we're collecting links to our V.Next, work that is outside the scope of VS 2005, but still important to think about and track for the next release.

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1Allow Property and Item declarations inside <Target>akipmanWishPropGroupItemGroupWithinTargetsderekgreer
2Lint switch or toolakipmanWishMSBuildCop||
3Boolean propertiesakipmanWishBooleanProperties||
4Property change / Item collection eventsakipmanWishPropertyItemChangeEvents||
5Allow properties to be transformed like itemsakipmanWishPropertyTransforms||
6Infer TargetType from OutputAssembly extensionjcansdaleWishInferTargetTypeFromOutputAssembly||
7Give .proj file presidence over .sln when running MSBuildjcansdaleWishProjFilePresidence||
8XmlPeek and XmlPoke tasksjcansdaleWishXmlPeekAndPokeTasks||
9Invoke From CodeJohn Melville, MDInvokeFromCode||
10.vdproj supportharriyott||
11Targets file visualizer, or even better a visual editorfatcat1111||
12Wait command line option for debuggingblanen||
13Command line option to send output to a specified folder, instead of always using a project file's output folder settings (VERY important for automated build scenarios)alvrod||
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