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building-projects

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Streamline .NET build tool selection and build orchestration during upgrades.

Software Engineering#dotnet#NuGet#build tool#build orchestration#msbuild
Authormicrosoft
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

This Skill solves the challenge of choosing the right build tool for .NET projects during modernization upgrades, ensuring efficient builds and error recovery.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Build Tool Selection: Automatically determines whether to use dotnet build or msbuild.exe based on project type and requirements.
  • Build Orchestration: Executes targeted or full solution builds, handles NuGet restores, and manages multi-targeting scenarios.
  • Error Recovery: Diagnoses and recovers from build failures, including handling resource generation issues and WPF/WinForms compilation errors.
  • Use Case: Ideal for modernizing legacy .NET applications by ensuring that builds complete successfully, even for complex scenarios involving multiple target frameworks and resource types.

Quick Start

Use the building-projects skill to build your .NET project with automatic tool selection and error recovery.

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Name: building-projects
Download link: https://github.com/microsoft/upgrade-agent-plugins/archive/main.zip#building-projects

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