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BenVillalobos / Commits Where I learned Something
Last active Apr 8, 2021
Commits where I learned something
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Turning chars into its integer hex representation: https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/pull/6227/commits/abdbd9f0eef87c0904166900617fa378b636ec60
More insight on how MSBuild logging works: https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/pull/6326
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BenVillalobos / msbuilddebugcomm.md
Created Jul 21, 2020
Debugging Node Communication in MSBuild
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Debugging Node Communication in MSBuild

To capture logs of how MSBuild nodes talk to each other:

  1. Set MSBUILDDEBUGCOMM=1
  2. Set MSBUILDDEBUGPATH=<some_folder_path>
  3. Run your scenario
  4. The node communication traces should exist in the folder you specified.
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BenVillalobos / TargetFrameworkIdentifiers.md
Last active May 26, 2020
Known values for TargetFrameworkIdentifier
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[5/21 4:03 PM] David Kean The format is; [Identifier], Version=v[Version], Profile=[Profile] where profile is optional.

Valid identifier values off the top my head:

Silverlight

CompactFX

.NETFramework

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BenVillalobos / ManifestResourceNaming.md
Last active Feb 24, 2021
How MSBuild Manifest Resource Naming Works
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Manifest Resource Names and You!

For explicit information on how resource names are chosen, see this dotnet docs issue.

This gist is meant to be a slightly higher level explanation on how resource names are used. Mostly I'm just documenting as much context as possible before I forget.

So we start with some Foo.resx

That Foo.resx will get passed to a few tasks in different forms throughout the build.

Relevant tasks: