Hello,
You can create a new project file as well, not only modifying them.
If you do not explicitly want to have a project file, use the csc/vbc
compiler.
Example from msdn:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine;
namespace AddNewItem
{
class Program
{
/// <summary>
/// This code demonstrates the use of the following methods:
/// Engine constructor
/// Project constructor
/// Project.LoadFromXml
/// Project.Xml
/// BuildItemGroupCollection.GetEnumerator
/// BuildItemGroup.GetEnumerator
/// BuildItem.Name (get)
/// BuildItem.Include (set)
/// BuildItem.GetMetadata
/// BuildItem.SetMetadata
/// BuildItemGroup.RemoveItem
/// BuildItemGroup.AddNewItem
/// </summary>
/// <param name="args"></param>
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Create a new Engine object.
Engine engine = new Engine(Environment.CurrentDirectory);
// Create a new Project object.
Project project = new Project(engine);
// Load the project with the following XML, which contains
// two ItemGroups.
project.LoadXml(@"
<Project
xmlns='
http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003'>
<ItemGroup>
<Compile Include='Program.cs'/>
<Compile Include='Class1.cs'/>
<RemoveThisItemPlease Include='readme.txt'/>
</ItemGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<EmbeddedResource Include='Strings.resx'>
<LogicalName>Strings.resources</LogicalName>
<Culture>fr-fr</Culture>
</EmbeddedResource>
</ItemGroup>
</Project>
");
// Iterate through each ItemGroup in the Project. There
are two.
foreach (BuildItemGroup ig in project.ItemGroups)
{
BuildItem itemToRemove = null;
// Iterate through each Item in the ItemGroup.
foreach (BuildItem item in ig)
{
// If the item's name is "RemoveThisItemPlease",
then
// store a reference to this item in a local
variable,
// so we can remove it later.
if (item.Name == "RemoveThisItemPlease")
{
itemToRemove = item;
}
// If the item's name is "EmbeddedResource" and it
has a metadata Culture
// set to "fr-fr", then ...
if ((item.Name == "EmbeddedResource") &&
(item.GetMetadata("Culture") == "fr-fr"))
{
// Change the item's Include path to
"FrenchStrings.fr.resx",
// and add a new metadata Visiable="false".
item.Include = @"FrenchStrings.fr.resx";
item.SetMetadata("Visible", "false");
}
}
// Remove the item named "RemoveThisItemPlease" from
the
// ItemGroup
if (itemToRemove != null)
{
ig.RemoveItem(itemToRemove);
}
// For each ItemGroup that we found, add to the end of
it
// a new item Content with Include="SplashScreen.bmp".
ig.AddNewItem("Content", "SplashScreen.bmp");
}
// The project now looks like this:
//
// <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
// <Project
xmlns="
http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003"> // <ItemGroup>
// <Compile Include="Program.cs" />
// <Compile Include="Class1.cs" />
// <Content Include="SplashScreen.bmp" />
// </ItemGroup>
// <ItemGroup>
// <EmbeddedResource
Include="FrenchStrings.fr.resx">
// <LogicalName>Strings.resources</LogicalName>
// <Culture>fr-fr</Culture>
// <Visible>false</Visible>
// </EmbeddedResource>
// <Content Include="SplashScreen.bmp" />
// </ItemGroup>
// </Project>
//
Console.WriteLine(project.Xml);
}
}
}
/Magnus
