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Advanced MSBuild: Auto-setup test projects

By sven.huebner.it December 24, 2022Build, General Development

You can minimize the effort of creating new test projects according to your project's conventions by defining some global default MSBuild properties. A new test project csproj will then be a five-liner consisting only of the SDK and TFM.

Advanced MSBuild: Adding a ProjectReference sibling project to a PackageReference project

By sven.huebner.it December 3, 2022Build, General Development1 Comment

Speed up development of dependent nuget package chains by creating sibling projects that use ProjectReference instead of PackageReference for instantaneous feedback.

Advanced MSBuild: project file as single source of truth for build and runtime

By sven.huebner.it November 19, 2022Build, General Development

It is possible to define build parameters in a way that is accessible at runtime by declaring custom AssemblyAttribute entries in your csproj file.

Advanced MSBuild: multi-API-version compatibility without code duplication

By sven.huebner.it November 5, 2022Build, General Development

Maintain functionality against different versions of an external library without code duplication by using preprocessor directives.

Advanced MSBuild: Ignoring Bitness when building Plugins

By sven.huebner.it October 21, 2022Build, Uncategorized

When developing plugins for an application that is shipped as both 32 and 64 bit, it may be possible to publish a single artifact working with both by building as AnyCpu, ignoring the MSB3270 warning.