If you wish to use new MSBuild API features, your assembly must also upgrade, but existing code will continue to work. Starting with MSBuild 16.8, you can selectively choose whether to opt out of certain potentially disruptive changes in MSBuild. VisualStudioVersion for this version of the tools is '16.0' MSBuild is a build tool that helps automate the process of creating a software product, including compiling the source code, packaging, testing, deployment and.
The assembly version is the same as in Visual Studio 2017, which is 15.1.0.0. MSBuildToolsVersion for this version of the tools is 'Current'. The following MSBuild properties have been updated due to the new version number. The Visual Studio 2017 Community version of 'msbuild.exe' is located in 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio2017CommunityMSBuild15.0Bin' If you have multiple MSBuild versions installed, you can configure multiple executables.
For example, the path to MSBuild.exe installed with Visual Studio 2019 Community is C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBuild.exe You can also use the following PowerShell module to locate MSBuild: vssetup.powershell. The MSBuild executable is usually situated in a subfolder of C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFramework. MSBuild is installed in the \Current folder under each version of Visual Studio, and the executables are in the \Bin subfolder.
This article describes updated features and properties in MSBuild 16.0.
