MSBuild Community Tasks
The MSBuild Community Tasks Project is an open source project for MSBuild tasks.
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Task
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Description
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#Add">Add</a></td>
<td>Add numbers</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#AppPoolController">AppPoolController</a></td>
<td>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.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#AppPoolCreate">AppPoolCreate</a></td>
<td>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.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#AppPoolDelete">AppPoolDelete</a></td>
<td>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.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#AssemblyInfo">AssemblyInfo</a></td>
<td>Generates an AssemblyInfo files</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#Attrib">Attrib</a></td>
<td>Changes the attributes of files and/or directories</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#Divide">Divide</a></td>
<td>Divide numbers</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#EmbedNativeResource">EmbedNativeResource</a></td>
<td>Embed native (rather than .NET) resource into a DLL or EXE.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#FileUpdate">FileUpdate</a></td>
<td>Replace text in file(s) using a Regular Expression.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#FtpUpload">FtpUpload</a></td>
<td>Uploads a file using File Transfer Protocol (FTP).</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#FxCop">FxCop</a></td>
<td>Uses FxCop to analyse managed code assemblies and reports on
their design best-practice compliance.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#GetSolutionProjects">GetSolutionProjects</a></td>
<td>Task to get paths to projects and project names from VS2005 solution file</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#ILMerge">ILMerge</a></td>
<td>A wrapper for the ILMerge tool.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#Mail">Mail</a></td>
<td>Sends an email message</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#Multiple">Multiple</a></td>
<td>Multiply numbers</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#MV">MV</a></td>
<td>Moves files on the filesystem to a new location.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#NDoc">NDoc</a></td>
<td>Runs the NDoc application.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#NUnit">NUnit</a></td>
<td>Run NUnit on a group of assemblies.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#NUnit3">NUnit3</a></td>
<td>Run NUnit3.x on a group of assemblies.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#RegexMatch">RegexMatch</a></td>
<td>Task to filter an Input list with a Regex expression.
Output list contains items from Input list that matched given expression</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#RegexReplace">RegexReplace</a></td>
<td>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.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#RegistryRead">RegistryRead</a></td>
<td>Reads a value from the Registry</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#RegistryWrite">RegistryWrite</a></td>
<td>Writes a value to the Registry</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#Script">Script</a></td>
<td>Executes code contained within the task.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#ServiceController">ServiceController</a></td>
<td>Task that can control a Windows service.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#ServiceQuery">ServiceQuery</a></td>
<td>Task that can determine the status of a specified service
on a target server.</td>
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<tr>
<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#Sleep">Sleep</a></td>
<td>A task for sleeping for a specified period of time.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#SqlExecute">SqlExecute</a></td>
<td>Executes a SQL command.</td>
</tr>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#Subtract">Subtract</a></td>
<td>Subtract numbers</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#SvnCheckout">SvnCheckout</a></td>
<td>Checkout a local working copy of a Subversion repository.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#SvnClient">SvnClient</a></td>
<td>Subversion client base class</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#SvnCommit">SvnCommit</a></td>
<td>Subversion Commit command</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#SvnExport">SvnExport</a></td>
<td>Export a folder from a Subversion repository</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#SvnInfo">SvnInfo</a></td>
<td>Run the "svn info" command and parse the output</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#SvnUpdate">SvnUpdate</a></td>
<td>Subversion Update command</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#SvnVersion">SvnVersion</a></td>
<td>Summarize the local revision(s) of a working copy.</td>
</tr>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#TaskSchema">TaskSchema</a></td>
<td>A Task that generates a XSD schema of the tasks in an assembly.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#TemplateFile">TemplateFile</a></td>
<td>A task that replaces tokens in a template file and writes out a new file.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#Time">Time</a></td>
<td>Gets the current date and time.</td>
</tr>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#Unzip">Unzip</a></td>
<td>Unzip a file to a target directory.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#Version">Version</a></td>
<td>Get Version information from file.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#VssAdd">VssAdd</a></td>
<td>Task that adds files to a Visual SourceSafe database.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#VssCheckin">VssCheckin</a></td>
<td>Task that executes a checkin against a VSS Database.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#VssCheckout">VssCheckout</a></td>
<td>Task that executes a checkout of files or projects
against a Visual SourceSafe database.</td>
</tr>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#VssClean">VssClean</a></td>
<td>Task that can strip the source control information from a
Visual Studio Solution and subprojects.</td>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#VssDiff">VssDiff</a></td>
<td>Task that records differences between the latest version
of all the items in a Visual SourceSafe project and another version or label
to a file.</td>
</tr>
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<td><a href="Documentation/TaskDocs.md#VssGet">VssGet</
