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MSBuild

The build engine that reads project files and turns them into a program.

MSBuild is the .NET build engine; it evaluates project files (properties, items, imports) and executes targets and tasks such as restore, compile and copy.

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Examples

  • dotnet build hands Tips.csproj to MSBuild, which restores, compiles and copies the output.

See also

.csproj file MSBuild property MSBuild target
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