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copied!<p>First, MSBuild files are XML, which you can encode as UTF-8, so you should be able to copy/paste the trademark character directly in the MSBuild script, <strong>without escaping</strong>.</p> <p>If you can't take that approach, <strong>don't escape the ampersand</strong>. There are two levels of escaping things in an MSBuild script. The first is XML-encoding, so that XML-sensitive characters (<code><</code> and <code>&</code>) can be used and you'll still have safe XML. When MSBuild reads in the file, XML-escape sequences get unescaped. After that process, MSBuild then does its own un-escaping (i.e. <code>%3B</code> for semi-colons).</p> <p>Because you're using <code>&amp;</code> at the beginning of your XMl escape sequence, the XML processor is interpreting that as a <em>literal</em> ampersand, not the special XML ampersand, which denotes an escape sequence. Change your <code>MyProductName</code> item group's value to be:</p> <pre><code><MyProductName Include="Trademarked&#174; Product" /> </code></pre> <p>Since <code>MyProductName</code> appears to be a scalar value, and not a list, I would use a property instead:</p> <pre><code><PropertyGroup> <MyProductName>Trademarked® Product</MyProductName> </PropertyGroup> </code></pre> <p>In your <code>Exec</code> task you can then use it like this:</p> <pre><code><Exec Command="msbuild.exe subBuildScript.proj /p:DefineConstants=&quot;MyProductName=$(MyProductName);OtherVar=@(foo);AnotherVar=asdf;&quot; " /> </code></pre>

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