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Philip Daniels
Philip Daniels

Reputation: 1024

Recursive imports with MSBuild

In MSBuild it is possible to do a recursive import

<Import Project="TopLevel\**\*.targets" />

Does anybody know if MSBuild makes any guarantees about the order that the matching files are imported in? It is important for property evaluations.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 146

Answers (1)

Eugene P.
Eugene P.

Reputation: 2625

Wildcards: In the .NET Framework 4, MSBuild allows wildcards in the Project attribute. When there are wildcards, all matches found are sorted (for reproducibility), and then they are imported in that order as if the order had been explicitly set. This is useful if you want to offer an extensibility point so that someone else can import a file without requiring you to explicitly add the file name to the importing file. For this purpose, Microsoft.Common.Targets contains the following line at the top of the file.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/92x05xfs.aspx

hope that help

Upvotes: 2

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