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I guess the question is how to configure the task so it actually copies files into target of ProjectB. Or more likely marks files in ProjectA folder somehow so ProjectB to copy files similar to references and other files with "copy to output Directory=always".

Alexei Levenkov
– Alexei Levenkov

2013-01-14 16:44:02 +00:00
Commented Jan 14, 2013 at 16:44
@Wolfwyrd, as Alexei said, your solution implies that I would have to modify ProjectB to perform the copy but I would like to avoid this. The "FileWrites" seems only to be used for tracking files when using "Clean" target but is not used for registering outputs. The Microsoft.Common.targets file seems to perform some specific operations to copy dependencies, and It is not clear that it is extendable to handle this.

xoofx
– xoofx

2013-01-15 01:05:15 +00:00
Commented Jan 15, 2013 at 1:05
@xoofx - so ProjectB contains your invocation of MyCustomTask at some point? Why can't you just put a <Copy> task invocation in the same target after MyCustomTask? Or why not just, in your code in MyCustomTask, do the copy via your favorite .NET copy API?

Jason Malinowski
– Jason Malinowski

2013-01-25 07:14:20 +00:00
Commented Jan 25, 2013 at 7:14
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No Project B contains a regular ProjectReference dependency to Project A. But Project B doesn't know what Project A is actually doing (MyCustomTask or not). The solution requires a bit more hooking in msbuild, see my answer.

xoofx
– xoofx

2013-01-25 13:50:24 +00:00
Commented Jan 25, 2013 at 13:50

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