Avoiding local dependencies for MSBuild Community Tasks within Visual Studio 2010

6
votes

I'm trying to start taking advantage of the MSBuild Community Tasks so right after installing the .msi package I've imported MSBuild.Community.targets within the <Project> element this way:

<Import Project="lib\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.targets" />

Interestingly I've noticed such file have a reference to the local installation path in MSBuildExtensionsPath and given that in lieu of keeping code dependencies as clean as possible I'm willing to pay the overhead of distributing/versioning them with every project, I was wondering if is it possible to sort of override the default/installation location with a project-relative one in the .cproj file?

The actual layout would be like:

Dotnet.Samples.Foobar
\src
     Foobar.cs
\lib
     MSBuild.Community.Tasks.targets
     MSBuild.Community.Tasks.dll

Any guidance will be sincerely appreciated. Thanks much in advace for any suggestion you might want to share.

1
visual-studio-2010msbuildmsbuildcommunitytasks

1 Answers

7
votes

In MSBuild.Community.Tasks.targets specified the path to the dll. 

<PropertyGroup>
  <MSBuildCommunityTasksPath Condition="'$(MSBuildCommunityTasksPath)' == ''">$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\MSBuildCommunityTasks</MSBuildCommunityTasksPath>
  <MSBuildCommunityTasksLib>$(MSBuildCommunityTasksPath)\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.dll</MSBuildCommunityTasksLib>
</PropertyGroup>

You can override the path in the project.

<PropertyGroup>
   <MSBuildCommunityTasksPath>lib</MSBuildCommunityTasksPath>      
</PropertyGroup>

And leave import the same:

<Import Project="lib\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.targets" />