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minspect commented on How to setup dynamic groups in MSBuild without Visual Studio ruining them

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:28:36 GMT

Can anybody explain what is dynamic group? Maybe your post answers following stackoverflow question: [stackoverflow.com/.../is-there-a-way-to-automat...](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2551107/is-there-a-way-to-automatically-include-content-files-into-asp-net-project-file)

Aaron Carlson commented on How to setup dynamic groups in MSBuild without Visual Studio ruining them

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:37:55 GMT

FYI, You can place item groups directly in targets with msbuild 3.5 now. The CreateItem task is actually considered deprecated. I find it more natural to use item groups then the CreateItem task. MSDN doc that states CreateItem is deprecated as of 3.5. [msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s2y3e43x.aspx](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s2y3e43x.aspx) MSDN doc that says ItemGroups can live in Targets as of 3.5. [msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/646dk05y.aspx](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/646dk05y.aspx)

Ayende Rahien commented on How to setup dynamic groups in MSBuild without Visual Studio ruining them

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:43:37 GMT

Oh, that explains it. The project I am working on has dynamic & static content, which I edits. When you make a modification, it seems to trigger the "to hard code" thingie

styx31 commented on How to setup dynamic groups in MSBuild without Visual Studio ruining them

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:33:51 GMT

Yes, it works great when VS compile and on TFS Build also. My ItemGroup is placed at the end of the csproj, after the two MS imports : Microsoft.CSharp.targets & Microsoft.WebApplication.targets, and before BeforeBuild & AfterBuild targets. The bonus is that the files are displayed well in the solution explorer. But I never add or remove solution items using visual studio, as this projet's goal is only to merge other web applications. Perhaps when VS add a file it makes all content references static. Can I send you my .csproj file ?

styx31 commented on How to setup dynamic groups in MSBuild without Visual Studio ruining them

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:29:54 GMT

Sorry for the html in my comment. Manually html encoded version : and read "to the EmbeddedResource xml element" ?

Ayende Rahien commented on How to setup dynamic groups in MSBuild without Visual Studio ruining them

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:28:41 GMT

Does it keep it as dynamic? When I tried it (on both compile & embedded resource), it just killed things

styx31 commented on How to setup dynamic groups in MSBuild without Visual Studio ruining them

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:27:14 GMT

What seems strange is that I've already used a wildcard to include all asmx in a web application. See my csproj : Perhaps the problem is only related to the