Bugs item #1579653, was opened at 2006-10-18 12:58
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Category: Tasks
Group: 0.85
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: s_tracey (s_tracey)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: solution task problem with VB.NET compilation constants

Initial Comment:
If you have a .NET solution consisting of a VB.NET 
project that has conditional compilation constants 
containing string literals defined e.g .VBProj 
contains line:
 DefineConstants = 'NAME="Value"'
(this is how VS represents ccc's in .VBProj file)

Then the <solution> task fails to properly present 
these constants to vbc, hence breaking build.

If you use the <vbc> task, then this only works 
properly if you prepend quotes with a "\".
e.g
This does not work:
<vbc .... define="NAME=&quot;Value;&quot;" ...
But this does:
<vbc .... define="NAME=\&quot;Value\&quot;" ...

This is because of a known problem with the .NET vbc 
compiler (.NET 10, 1.1 and 2.0 I believe)(which <vbc> 
task maps to) - see MS kb 818217

I suspect problem is that <solution> task does not 
prepend the "\" when formulating the define attribute 
values.

Should be a quick fix for someone which would 
certainly add a lot of value to me. 

Looking to automate build/test of several large 
VB.NET solutions which rely heavily on conditional 
compilation constants. There is also an argument for 
adding the fix to <vbc> task as well.

Until then, am stuck with using XSLT to 
transform .vbproj to .build script, which is not 
ideal.

If you need an example, let me know.

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