AI & Machine Learning
Target Authoring
Canonical patterns for writing custom MSBuild targets. USE FOR: diagnosing and fixing custom target authoring anti-patterns; broken SDK target chains across files (e.g., Directory.Build.targets silently redefining SDK targets); targets that replace CompileDependsOn instead of extending it with $(CompileDependsOn); query targets returning stale results from Outputs vs Returns misuse; missing Inputs/Outputs causing unnecessary rebuilds; missing FileWrites registration. Covers DependsOnTargets vs BeforeTargets vs AfterTargets, the Build→CoreBuild three-level pattern, and the $(XxxDependsOn) chain-extension pattern. DO NOT USE FOR: incremental build tuning (use incremental-build), parallelization (use build-parallelism), general anti-patterns (use msbuild-antipatterns), non-MSBuild build systems.
- Publisher / source
- dotnet/skills (found on skills.sh)
- Upstream record
- dotnet/skills
- Version
- Version 1
- Published
- Publication review
- Approved for publication
- Content fingerprint
e39b9ad0bfe65746c8110f971847a1dd8988feccc10b8ad19674ab544926bcc0