Target cause rebuild

Question

I have a custom build task which executes after the Build target which processes a few XML files. Everything works correctly except the project does not get built when xml files change because the solution believes the project is up-to-date. I would like the project to rebuild if any xml files with a particular build action change. Is there a way I do this?

Answer 1

You are probably not working on this anymore but you should have your code generation target simply append a non-existent file to the CustomAdditionalCompileInputs item. For instance

<Target Name="RegenCode">

  <Message Text="RegenCode Called" Importance="high"/>

  <ItemGroup>

    <CustomAdditionalCompileInputs Include="non-existent file"/>

  </ItemGroup>

</Target>
Then if you call the targets RegenCode;Build it make sure that the CoreCompile target is never skipped.

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