

To read the value of the property, we don’t have to use the ext. To add our own properties, we have to define them in an ext script block in a build file. When we run the build, we get the following output: $ gradle defaultProperties :defaultProperties Project: root project 'props' Name: defaultProperties Path: :defaultProperties Project directory: /Users/mrhaki/gradle-book/Code_Files/props Build directory: /Users/mrhaki/gradle-book/Code_Files/props/build Version: 1.0 Group: Sample Description: Sample build file to show project properties AntBuilder: BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 1.458 secs Defining custom properties in script The following build file has a task of showing the value of the properties: version = '1.0'ĭescription = 'Sample build file to show project properties' rootDir FileThe directory of the project at the root of a project structure. buildDir FileThe directory with the build name in the directory, containing the build script. projectDir FileThe directory containing the build script. description StringThe description of the project. path StringThe absolute path of the project. name StringThe name of the project directory. In this way,to read the value in it we have to use import project to call it manually.NameTypeDefault value project ProjectThe project instance. It doesn't make difference between and anyName.props.

vcxproj(C++), this feature() is not supported Note: This feature only supports C# and VB, cause only these two kinds of projects will import the in proj file.Īnd for other kinds of projects, just like your. So in visual studio, we don't need to force it before other imports.Its always called after import, and since the import is always first line of project node by default, the is always implicitly imported right after the and before others. If it finds one, it imports the property. When MSBuild runs, searches your directory structure for the file (and looks for ). When creating a new project(C# or VB) in VS, open its proj file we can find the format is like this: Įvery time when creating new C# or VB project, the top line within the node is Import project="", and we can find the sentence from this document: Is there any way to force MSBuild to inexplicitly import before any other imports, while work in Visual Studio?įor C# and VB language project, we don't need to importĭ manually or force it before other imports. The only reasonable explanation for me of such behavior is that aProperty is empty at the moment of importing, because explicit import happens before implicit one. But I get error that imported project is not found, and I see in error message that MSBuild tries to import from project directory, and not from subdirectory Subdir. Preparing all the above, I expected that aProperty will be initiated before the import and the import of add.targets will happen without problem. So all above has this folder structure: Solution directory In the project directory I have subdirectory "Subdir", where there is file add.targets, which contains all the targets I need (do not show it's contains here because it is not relevant to the problem). In the solution directory (.\ from project directory) I have file :
