Equivalent of dotnet build --version-suffix when using MSBuild.exe

Question

With the dotnet build tool from the .NET SDK, you can pass --version-suffix, for example to make prerelease packages with suffixes such as rc1, etc.

I am having to use MSBuild.exe directly in order to work around a bug with targetting net35 and want to know what the equivalent command line argument is for this.

Answer 1

Add the VersionSuffix property to your msbuild arguments:

msbuild /p:VersionSuffix=rc2 ...