Background: I manage a fairly large solution. Every so often, people add a DLL reference to a project in the solution where they should've added a project reference. I want to issue a warning in such case. I want to do it by finding all reference with 'bin\debug' in their HintPath*. I know that references are Items in ItemGroup, with metadata "HintPath".
I expected something like this to work:
<Warning Text="Reference %(Reference.Identity) should be a project reference. HintPath: %(Reference.HintPath)"
Condition="%(Reference.HintPath).IndexOf('bin\debug') != -1"/>
However, Seems like I can't use string function IndexOf like that. I tried many permutations of the above, without success.
- Edit: I know this check is not full-proof, but I just want to reduce honest mistakes.
Best Answer
Using MSBuild 4.0 Property Functions it is possible to do string comparisons: