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Does msbuild 15 support before solution targets?

I have installed VS 2017 and started building my solution with MSBuild 15. Immediately I notice that none of my before.{SolutionName}.sln.targets files are loaded.

I checked with ProcMon and the files are open and read without errors. But none of their actions are run.

Has anyone faced this situation? Any help is welcome.

EDIT 1

Here is my file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" DefaultTargets="Restore">
  <Target Name="Restore" BeforeTargets="Build;Rebuild">
    <MSBuild Projects=".nuget\NuGet.Targets" Targets="RestoreSolutionPackages" Properties="SolutionFile=..\$(MSBuildProjectName);NuGetVerbosity=$(NuGetVerbosity)"/>
  </Target>
</Project>

It is working in VS 2015, but stopped working in VS 2017.

Solution

  • I figured out what is the problem. VS 2017 introduced a new target into the generated sln.metaproj file - Restore and this target overshadowed my own target in the before.{SolutionFile}.sln.targets file.

    Once I renamed the target to MyRestore it worked again.

    Wasted 3 hours on it :-(.