The MSBuild Community Tasks Project

Mission

The MSBuild Community Tasks Project is an open source project for MSBuild tasks. The goal of the project is to provide a collection of open source tasks for MSBuild.

Join Project

Please join the MSBuild Community Tasks Project and help contribute in building the tasks. 

https://github.com/loresoft/msbuildtasks/

Current Community Tasks

Task Description
Add Add numbers
AddTnsName Defines a database host within the Oracle TNSNAMES.ORA file.
AppPoolController Allows control for an application pool on a local or remote machine with IIS installed. The default is to control the application pool on the local machine. If connecting to a remote machine, you can specify the and for the task to run under.
AppPoolCreate Creates a new application pool on a local or remote machine with IIS installed. The default is to create the new application pool on the local machine. If connecting to a remote machine, you can specify the and for the task to run under.
AppPoolDelete Deletes an existing application pool on a local or remote machine with IIS installed. The default is to delete an existing application pool on the local machine. If connecting to a remote machine, you can specify the and for the task to run under.
AssemblyInfo Generates an AssemblyInfo files
Attrib Changes the attributes of files and/or directories
Beep A task to play the sound of a beep through the console speaker.
BuildAssembler BuildAssembler task for Sandcastle.
Checksum Creates a checksum file.
ChmBuilder ChmBuilder task for Sandcastle.
ChmCompiler Html Help 1x compiler task.
Computer Provides information about the build computer.
DBCSFix DBCSFix task for Sandcastle.
DeleteTree Delete a directory tree. This task supports wild card directory selection.
Divide Divide numbers
EmbedNativeResource A task for embedded native resource.
ExecuteDDL MSBuild task to execute DDL and SQL statements.
FileUpdate Replace text in file(s) using a Regular Expression.
FtpCreateRemoteDirectory Creates a full remote directory on the remote server if not exists using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). This can be one directory or a full path to create.
FtpDirectoryExists Determ if a remote directory exists on a FTP server or not.
FtpUpload Uploads a group of files using File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
FtpUploadDirectoryContent Uploads a full directory content to a remote directory.
FxCop Uses FxCop to analyse managed code assemblies and reports on their design best-practice compliance.
GacUtil MSBuild task to install and uninstall assemblies into the GAC
GetSolutionProjects Retrieves the list of Projects contained within a Visual Studio Solution (.sln) file
GitBranch A task to get the name of the branch or tag of git repository
GitClient A task for Git commands.
GitCommits A task for git to retrieve the number of commits on a revision.
GitDescribe A task for git to get the most current tag, commit count since tag, and commit hash.
GitPendingChanges A task for git to detect if there are pending changes
GitVersion A task for git to get the current commit hash.
HttpRequest Makes an HTTP request, optionally validating the result and writing it to a file.
HxCompiler A Html Help 2.0 compiler task.
ILMerge A wrapper for the ILMerge tool.
InnoSetup MSBuild task to create installer with InnoSetup
InstallAspNet Installs and register script mappings for ASP.NET
InstallAssembly Installs assemblies.
JSCompress Compresses JavaScript source by removing comments and unnecessary whitespace. It typically reduces the size of the script by half, resulting in faster downloads and code that is harder to read.
MRefBuilder MRefBuilder task for Sandcastle.
MV Moves files on the filesystem to a new location.
Mail Sends an email message
Merge Merge files into the destination file.
Modulo Performs the modulo operation on numbers.
Multiple Multiple numbers
NDoc Runs the NDoc application.
NUnit Run NUnit 2.4 on a group of assemblies.
NUnit3 Run NUnit 3.x on a group of assemblies.
NuGetInstall Installs a package using the specified sources.
NuGetPack Creates a NuGet package based on the specified nuspec or project file.
NuGetPush Pushes a package to the server and optionally publishes it.
NuGetRestore Downloads and unzips (restores) any packages missing from the packages folder.
PdbStr A task for the pdbstr from source server.
Prompt Displays a message on the console and waits for user input.
RegexCompiler Compiles regular expressions and saves them to disk in an assembly.
RegexMatch Task to filter an Input list with a Regex expression. Output list contains items from Input list that matched given expression
RegexReplace Task to replace portions of strings within the Input list Output list contains all the elements of the Input list after performing the Regex Replace.
RegistryRead Reads a value from the Registry
RegistryWrite Writes a value to the Registry
RoboCopy Task wrapping the Window Resource Kit Robocopy.exe command.
Sandcastle The Sandcastle task.
Script Executes code contained within the task.
ServiceController Task that can control a Windows service.
ServiceQuery Task that can determine the status of a specified service on a target server.
Sleep A task for sleeping for a specified period of time.
Sound A task to play a sound from a .wav file path or URL.
SqlExecute Executes a SQL command.
SqlPubWiz The Database Publishing Wizard enables the deployment of SQL Server databases (both schema and data) into a shared hosting environment.
SrcTool A task for the srctool from source server.
Subtract Subtract numbers
SvnCheckout Checkout a local working copy of a Subversion repository.
SvnClient Subversion client base class
SvnCommit Subversion Commit command
SvnCopy Copy a file or folder in Subversion
SvnExport Export a folder from a Subversion repository
SvnInfo Run the "svn info" command and parse the output
SvnSourceIndex A subversion source index task.
SvnStatus Subversion status command.
SvnUpdate Subversion Update command
SvnVersion Summarize the local revision(s) of a working copy.
SymStore Task that wraps the Symbol Server SymStore.exe application.
TaskSchema A Task that generates a XSD schema of the tasks in an assembly.
TemplateFile MSBuild task that replaces tokens in a template file and writes out a new file.
TfsClient A task for Team Foundation Server version control.
TfsSourceIndex Task to index pdb files and entries to retrieve source files from Team Foundation Server source control.
Time Gets the current date and time.
UninstallAssembly Uninstalls assemblies.
Unzip Unzip a file to a target directory.
User Provides information about the build user.
Version Generates version information based on various algorithms
WebDirectoryCreate Creates a new web directory on a local or remote machine with IIS installed. The default is to create the new web directory on the local machine. The physical path is required to already exist on the target machine. If connecting to a remote machine, you can specify the and for the task to run under.
WebDirectoryDelete Deletes a web directory on a local or remote machine with IIS installed. The default is to delete the web directory on the local machine. If connecting to a remote machine, you can specify the and for the task to run under.
WebDirectoryScriptMap Sets an application mapping for a filename extension on an existing web directory.
WebDirectorySetting Reads and modifies a web directory configuration setting.
WebDownload Downloads a resource with the specified URI to a local file.
WebUpload Upload a local file to a remote URI.
XmlMassUpdate Performs multiple updates on an XML file
XmlQuery Reads a value or values from lines of XML
XmlRead Reads a value from a XML document using a XPath.
XmlUpdate Updates a XML document using a XPath.
XslTransform XslTransform task for Sandcastle.
Xslt A task to merge and transform a set of xml files.
Zip Create a zip file with the files specified.

Getting Started

In order to use the tasks in this project, you need to import the MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Targets files. If you installed the project with the msi installer, you can use the following.

<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\MSBuildCommunityTasks\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Targets"/>

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