Sometimes when you're reading a .csproj file you encounter properties like $(TargetDir) and wonder what directory does this property evaluate to when the project is compiled. Of course you can use heavy machinery like the MSBuild debugger, but sometimes a simpler tool can suffice. Here's what I wrote in literally 5 minutes:
using System;
using System.IO;
using Microsoft.Build.Evaluation;
class MSBuildDumper
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
if (args.Length != 1)
{
Console.WriteLine("Usage: MSBuildDumper <path-to-project.csproj>");
return;
}
var projectFilePath = Path.GetFullPath(args[0]);
var project = new Project(projectFilePath); // add reference to Microsoft.Build.dll to compile
foreach (var property in project.AllEvaluatedProperties)
{
Console.WriteLine(" {0}={1}", property.Name, property.EvaluatedValue);
}
foreach (var item in project.AllEvaluatedItems)
{
Console.WriteLine(" {0}: {1}", item.ItemType, item.EvaluatedInclude);
}
}
}
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