Access a 2nd project in the same solution with MSBuild

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/148556

  •  02-07-2019
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Question

I'm new to MSBuild, and am learning as I need to know how to do things. Currently, I am working form the MSBuild file that is generated from the Web Deployment Project extension for Visual Studio. I have been ab;e to access and manipulate files which are directly in my Web project by creating properties form this block of XML:

  <PropertyGroup>
    <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
    <Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">AnyCPU</Platform>
    <ProductVersion>9.0.21022</ProductVersion>
    <SchemaVersion>2.0</SchemaVersion>
    <ProjectGuid>{0B9F9B60-7AD7-49F0-A168-9D4D29FB1A21}</ProjectGuid>
    <SourceWebPhysicalPath>..\ARP_FORMS</SourceWebPhysicalPath>
    <SourceWebProject>{7FCA4A38-0FEE-4D46-82EF-AD0089F9CAA2}|ARP_FORMS\ARP_FORMS.csproj</SourceWebProject>
    <SourceWebVirtualPath>/ARP_FORMS.csproj</SourceWebVirtualPath>
    <TargetFrameworkVersion>v3.5</TargetFrameworkVersion>
  </PropertyGroup>

I need to create properties do the same thing to manipulate other files from additional projects in my solution. Can anyone point me to the proper syntax for this?

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Solution

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi answers this question very well, and he includes sample source code. Basically, you create an MSBuild project that executes other MSBuild projects.

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