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    copied!<p>I have an MSBuild file and I am building C# projects like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;ItemGroup&gt; &lt;ProjectsToBuild Include="./source/ProjectA/ProjectA.csproj"/&gt; &lt;ProjectsToBuild Include="./source/ProjectB/ProjectB.csproj"/&gt; &lt;/ItemGroup&gt; &lt;Target Name="Build"&gt; &lt;MSBuild Projects="@(ProjectsToBuild)" Targets="Build"&gt; &lt;Output ItemName="ProjectOutputs" TaskParameter="TargetOutputs"/&gt; &lt;/MSBuild&gt; &lt;Message Text="@ProjectOutputs"/&gt; &lt;/Target&gt; </code></pre> <p>I successfully get an Item containing all of the .dll files that were built:</p> <pre><code>Build: c:\code\bin\ProjectA.dll;c:\code\bin\ProjectB.dll </code></pre> <p>I would also like to get the Content item from each project without modifying the .csproj files. After digging around in the Microsoft .targets files, I was almost able to get it working with this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;MSBuild Projects="@(ProjectsToBuild)" Targets="ContentFilesProjectOutputGroup"&gt; &lt;Output ItemName="ContentFiles" TaskParameter="TargetOutputs"/&gt; &lt;/MSBuild&gt; &lt;Message Text="@(ContentFiles-&gt;'%(RelativeDir)')"/&gt; </code></pre> <p>The problem with this approach is the RelativeDir is not being set correctly. I am getting the full path instead of relative:</p> <pre><code>Build: c:\ProjectA\MyFolder\MyControl.ascx;c:\ProjectB\MyOtherFolder\MyCSS.css; </code></pre> <p>instead of:</p> <pre><code>Build: MyFolder\MyControl.ascx;MyOtherFolder\MyCSS.css; </code></pre> <p>Is there a property I can pass to the MSBuild task that will make RelativeDir behave correctly?</p> <p>Or, even better, is there an easier way to get the Content item?</p>
 

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