XBuild Achilles Heels
Invariably, every time I complain about XBuild, some long-time user of it tells me it’s not so bad
and it actually works pretty fine if you know its limitations. So I set out to document those, since
in my experience, they are so many as to cause beautifully and carefully crafted MSBuild targets to
become an entanglement of obsolete elements for the sake of satisfying XBuild (i.e. usage of CreateProperty
and CreateItem tasks, when declarative items and property groups are perfect in MSBuild).
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