I want to embed local references in the assembly before compiling the main unit. But the written target does not work.
<Target Name="EmbedLocal" BeforeTargets="CoreCompile">
<Message Text="Run EmbedLocal for $(MSBuildProjectFullPath)..." Importance="high"/>
<ItemGroup>
<EmbeddedResource Include="#( ReferencePath->WithMetadataValue( 'CopyLocal', 'true' )->Metadata( 'FullPath' ) )"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Message Text="Embed local references complete for $(OutputPath)$(TargetFileName)." Importance="high" />
</Target>
#(EmbeddedResource) at this moment contains valid list of paths.
Update:
Now my import file contains:
<Project ToolsVersion="$(MSBuildToolsVersion)" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup>
<EmbedLocalReferences Condition=" '$(EmbedLocalReferences)' == '' ">True</EmbedLocalReferences>
</PropertyGroup>
<Target Name="EmbedLocal" BeforeTargets="ResolveReferences" Condition=" '$(EmbedLocalReferences)' == 'True' ">
<Message Text="Run EmbedLocal for $(MSBuildProjectFullPath)..." Importance="high"/>
<ItemGroup>
<EmbeddedResource Include="#(ReferenceCopyLocalPaths->WithMetadataValue( 'Extension', '.dll' )->Metadata( 'FullPath' ))">
<LogicalName>%(ReferenceCopyLocalPaths.Filename)%(ReferenceCopyLocalPaths.Extension)</LogicalName>
</EmbeddedResource>
</ItemGroup>
<Message Text="Embed local references complete for $(OutputPath)$(TargetFileName)." Importance="high" />
</Target>
</Project>
It works fine. Output assembly contains all .dll references as EmbeddedResource.
MSBuild. Create EmbeddedResource before build
You can try to use BeforeBuild action to the csproj file to include the embedded resources:
<Target Name="BeforeBuild">
...
<ItemGroup>
<EmbeddedResource Include="..."/>
</ItemGroup>
...
</Target>
Now MSBuild will add this file as embedded resource into your assembly.
Update:
Thanks #Martin Ullrich. He pointed out the correct direction, we could use <Target Name="EmbedLocal" BeforeTargets="PrepareForBuild"> in the Directory.Build.props to resolve this issue. You can check if it works for you.
<Target Name="EmbedLocal" BeforeTargets="PrepareForBuild">
...
<ItemGroup>
<EmbeddedResource Include="..."/>
</ItemGroup>
...
</Target>
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I have project A that need to insert a TextId.cs before build. And, there is project B. TextId.cs would generated after project B is compiled and executed.
Now I'd like to integrate the compile and execute in Directory.Build.targets in project A. It is not worked as I expect. TextId.cs will generate but the build would still failed as no TextId.cs if I set BeforeTargets="BeforeBuild" as below.
Anyone knows that which target is OK? or, any other solution?
<Project>
<ItemGroup>
<ProjectReferences Include="c:\code\textidfilegenerator\*.*proj" />
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="BuildOtherProjects">
<Message Importance="High" Text="-----------------------" />
<MSBuild
Projects="#(ProjectReferences)"
Targets="Build">
</MSBuild>
</Target>
<Target Name="CopyText" DependsOnTargets="BuildOtherProjects" BeforeTargets="BeforeBuild">
<Message Importance="High" Text="**********************" />
<Exec Command="C:\Code\TextIdFileGenerator\bin\Debug\net6.0\TextIdFileGenerator.exe C:\Code\Sys1500TestDriver\TextProvider\TextIds.cs" IgnoreExitCode="true"/>
</Target>
</Project>
Before you will dive into the comments below, go through these docs:
MSBuild reserved and well-known properties
Common MSBuild project properties
<Project>
<ItemGroup>
<ProjectReferences Include="c:\code\textidfilegenerator\*.*proj" /> <!--you should use relative path like <ProjectReference Include="../**/*.csproj or absolute with MSBuild well-known properties" />-->
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="BuildOtherProjects"> <!--you don't need this target if you have project reference-->
<Message Importance="High" Text="-----------------------" />
<MSBuild
Projects="#(ProjectReferences)"
Targets="Build">
</MSBuild>
</Target>
<Target Name="CopyText" DependsOnTargets="BuildOtherProjects" BeforeTargets="BeforeBuild"><!-- 'BeforeBuild' will not work because TextIdFileGenerator.exe needs to be created before you will do anything with it so you should use 'AfterTargets="Build"'-->
<Message Importance="High" Text="**********************" />
<Exec Command="C:\Code\TextIdFileGenerator\bin\Debug\net6.0\TextIdFileGenerator.exe C:\Code\Sys1500TestDriver\TextProvider\TextIds.cs" IgnoreExitCode="true"/><!-- again, you should use relative paths or absolute ones with combination of MSBuildProjectDirectory and OutDir -->
</Target>
</Project>
I'm looking into ways to execute python as part of a C# build.
Specifically, I want to create a Python package based on a C# project through python.net. My general idea was to build the C# project first. And then, as some sort of post-build step, invoke python to build a package based on the newly generated NET assemblies.
I can't presume python will installed on the build host, so ideally I want to include a "portable" - even more ideally, nuget-based - python distribution.
I have found a promising nuget package, but am not entirely sure of its usage. It incldues no C# code, but has all python binaries included, and has build props as copy/pasted below for reference.
Given on that package's props - can I somehow reference its binaries from my own project as a post-build step?
Say, for example, I want to add a post-build step to my own project, that simply just invokes "python.exe" after the build. How could I do that?
My own project:
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
<PropertyGroup>
<OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
<TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.1</TargetFramework>
<GenerateProgramFile>false</GenerateProgramFile>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="python" Version="3.10.0-a6" />
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="MyCustomStep" AfterTargets="Build">
<!-- .. now what? I can't seem to access. e.g. #(PythonHome) or $(PythonHome) from here --/>
<Target>
</Project>
Props of the python package from nuget:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup Condition="$(Platform) == 'X64'">
<PythonHome Condition="$(PythonHome) == ''">$([System.IO.Path]::GetFullPath("$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)\..\..\tools"))</PythonHome>
<PythonInclude>$(PythonHome)\include</PythonInclude>
<PythonLibs>$(PythonHome)\libs</PythonLibs>
<PythonTag>3.10</PythonTag>
<PythonVersion>3.10.0-a6</PythonVersion>
<IncludePythonExe Condition="$(IncludePythonExe) == ''">true</IncludePythonExe>
<IncludeDistutils Condition="$(IncludeDistutils) == ''">false</IncludeDistutils>
<IncludeLib2To3 Condition="$(IncludeLib2To3) == ''">false</IncludeLib2To3>
<IncludeVEnv Condition="$(IncludeVEnv) == ''">false</IncludeVEnv>
<GetPythonRuntimeFilesDependsOn>_GetPythonRuntimeFilesDependsOn310_None;$(GetPythonRuntimeFilesDependsOn)</GetPythonRuntimeFilesDependsOn>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemDefinitionGroup Condition="$(Platform) == 'X64'">
<ClCompile>
<AdditionalIncludeDirectories>$(PythonInclude);%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)</AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
<RuntimeLibrary>MultiThreadedDLL</RuntimeLibrary>
</ClCompile>
<Link>
<AdditionalLibraryDirectories>$(PythonLibs);%(AdditionalLibraryDirectories)</AdditionalLibraryDirectories>
</Link>
</ItemDefinitionGroup>
<Target Name="GetPythonRuntimeFiles" Returns="#(PythonRuntime)" DependsOnTargets="$(GetPythonRuntimeFilesDependsOn)" />
<Target Name="_GetPythonRuntimeFilesDependsOn310_None" Returns="#(PythonRuntime)">
<ItemGroup>
<_PythonRuntimeExe Include="$(PythonHome)\python*.dll" />
<_PythonRuntimeExe Include="$(PythonHome)\python*.exe" Condition="$(IncludePythonExe) == 'true'" />
<_PythonRuntimeExe>
<Link>%(Filename)%(Extension)</Link>
</_PythonRuntimeExe>
<_PythonRuntimeDlls Include="$(PythonHome)\DLLs\*.pyd" />
<_PythonRuntimeDlls Include="$(PythonHome)\DLLs\*.dll" />
<_PythonRuntimeDlls>
<Link>DLLs\%(Filename)%(Extension)</Link>
</_PythonRuntimeDlls>
<_PythonRuntimeLib Include="$(PythonHome)\Lib\**\*" Exclude="$(PythonHome)\Lib\**\*.pyc;$(PythonHome)\Lib\site-packages\**\*" />
<_PythonRuntimeLib Remove="$(PythonHome)\Lib\distutils\**\*" Condition="$(IncludeDistutils) != 'true'" />
<_PythonRuntimeLib Remove="$(PythonHome)\Lib\lib2to3\**\*" Condition="$(IncludeLib2To3) != 'true'" />
<_PythonRuntimeLib Remove="$(PythonHome)\Lib\ensurepip\**\*" Condition="$(IncludeVEnv) != 'true'" />
<_PythonRuntimeLib Remove="$(PythonHome)\Lib\venv\**\*" Condition="$(IncludeVEnv) != 'true'" />
<_PythonRuntimeLib>
<Link>Lib\%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)</Link>
</_PythonRuntimeLib>
<PythonRuntime Include="#(_PythonRuntimeExe);#(_PythonRuntimeDlls);#(_PythonRuntimeLib)" />
</ItemGroup>
<Message Importance="low" Text="Collected Python runtime from $(PythonHome):%0D%0A#(PythonRuntime->' %(Link)','%0D%0A')" />
</Target>
</Project>
That is for the use of internal nuget rather than your main project. You cannot get that property under main project.
You have to use my function:
1) edit csproj file and set this for your PackageReference python
<GeneratePathProperty>true</GeneratePathProperty>
Like this:
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="python" Version="3.10.0-a6">
<GeneratePathProperty>true</GeneratePathProperty>
</PackageReference>
</ItemGroup>
2) Then, you can use $(Pkgpython) to get that path.
<Target Name="MyCustomStep" AfterTargets="Build">
<Exec Command="$(Pkgpython)\tools\python.exe" />
</Target>
In my company, we have some projects using .NET Framework (4.5.1) and one project using .NET Core.
Currently, all the .NET Framework projects are built with MSBuild.exe (version 12) and i would like to update the build to use MSBuild 15 so i would be able to build both .NET Framework and .NET Core projects in the same build.
Currently, the build compiles successfully when i'm building only my .NET Core project. But i wish to publish it, and the build result is not my desired outcome as it doesn't publish it correctly (the build results in the folders: bin, Properties, Views, wwwroot, and the configuration files).
I dont know what im doing wrong here, i have searched the web for a couple of days and still wasnt able to figure out what i did wrong. Please advice.
Note: to be able to build in the first place, i had to add to my .NET Core's project .csproj file the following lines so it wont fail while building:
<Import Project="$(VSToolsPath)\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' != ''" />
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v15.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" Condition="true" />
The command line to execute the build
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\MSBuild" DailyBuild.proj /t:DailyBuild /p:VersionNumber=15
DailyBuild.proj
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup>
<SourcesPath>$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\..\..\</SourcesPath>
<CSCleanProperties>BuildType=Clean;Configuration=Release;IsFormalBuild=true</CSCleanProperties>
<CSBuildProperties>BuildType=ReBuild;Configuration=Release;PauseBuildOnError=false;PublishWebSites=true;VersionName=Prod-$(VersionNumber)</CSBuildProperties>
</PropertyGroup>
<Target Name="DailyBuildWithClean">
<MSBuild Projects="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\Make2.proj" Targets="Clean" Properties="$(CSCleanProperties)"/>
<MSBuild Projects="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\Make2.proj" Properties="$(CSCleanProperties)"/>
<MSBuild Projects="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\Make2.proj" Targets="FormalBuild" Properties="$(CSBuildProperties)"/>
</Target>
<Target Name="DailyBuild">
<MSBuild Projects="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\Make2.proj" Targets="SW;PreparePackFolder" Properties="$(CSBuildProperties)"/>
</Target>
</Project>
Make2.proj
<Project DefaultTargets="SW" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" InitialTargets="CreateProperties;Clean">
<ItemGroup>
<SourcesPathItem Include='$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\..\..\' />
</ItemGroup>
<PropertyGroup>
<MSBuildCommunityTasksPath>$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.v1.4.0.88</MSBuildCommunityTasksPath>
</PropertyGroup>
<Import Project="$(MSBuildCommunityTasksPath)\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Targets" />
<PropertyGroup>
<Configuration>Debug</Configuration>
<Platform>x86</Platform>
<CSConfiguration>$(Configuration)</CSConfiguration>
<BuildType Condition=" '$(BuildType)' == '' ">Build</BuildType>
<PauseBuildOnError>true</PauseBuildOnError>
<PublishWebSites>false</PublishWebSites>
<IsFormalBuild>false</IsFormalBuild>
<VersionName>Prod</VersionName>
</PropertyGroup>
<Target Name="CreateProperties" >
<CreateProperty Value="%(SourcesPathItem.Fullpath)Src\">
<Output PropertyName="SourcesPath" TaskParameter="Value"/>
</CreateProperty>
<CreateProperty Value="%(SourcesPathItem.Fullpath)Artifacts\">
<Output PropertyName="MainArtifactsFolder" TaskParameter="Value"/>
</CreateProperty>
<CreateProperty Value="%(SourcesPathItem.Fullpath)Packages\">
<Output PropertyName="PackageFolder" TaskParameter="Value"/>
</CreateProperty>
<CreateProperty Value="%(SourcesPathItem.Fullpath)Artifacts\DeployedArtifacts\">
<Output PropertyName="DeployedPackageFolder" TaskParameter="Value"/>
</CreateProperty>
<CreateProperty Value="%(SourcesPathItem.Fullpath)Src\Util\InspectorWebService\InspectorWebService\Publish\">
<Output PropertyName="InspectorWebServicePublishPath" TaskParameter="Value"/>
</CreateProperty>
</Target>
<PropertyGroup>
<CSPlatformIndependentProjectProperties>Configuration=$(CSConfiguration);Platform=AnyCPU</CSPlatformIndependentProjectProperties>
<CSPlatformSpecificProjectProperties>Configuration=$(CSConfiguration);Platform=$(Platform)</CSPlatformSpecificProjectProperties>
<VCConfiguration>Configuration=$(CSConfiguration);Platform=Win32</VCConfiguration>
</PropertyGroup>
<Target Name="InspectorWebService">
<RemoveDir Directories="$(InspectorWebServicePublishPath)"/>
<MSBuild Projects="$(SourcesPath)Util\InspectorWebService\InspectorWebService\InspectorWebService.csproj" Targets="$(BuildType)" Properties="$(CSPlatformIndependentProjectProperties)"/>
<MSBuild Condition=" '$(BuildType)' != 'Clean' And '$(PublishWebSites)' == 'true' " Projects="$(SourcesPath)Util\InspectorWebService\InspectorWebService\InspectorWebService.csproj"
Targets="ResolveReferences;_WPPCopyWebApplication" Properties="WebProjectOutputDir=$(InspectorWebServicePublishPath);BuildingProject=true" />
</Target>
<PropertyGroup>
<AllProcessesTargets>
InspectorWebService;
</AllProcessesTargets>
</PropertyGroup>
<Target Name="SW">
<CallTarget Targets="$(AllProcessesTargets)" RunEachTargetSeparately="false"/>
<OnError ExecuteTargets="PauseBuild"/>
</Target>
<Target Name="FormalBuild">
<CallTarget Targets="SW;PreparePackFolder;Pack"/>
<OnError ExecuteTargets="ErrorHandler"/>
</Target>
<Target Name="PreparePackFolder">
<RemoveDir Directories="$(MainArtifactsFolder)" />
<MakeDir Directories="$(MainArtifactsFolder)" />
<MSBuild Projects="$(MSBuildProjectFile)" Targets="PreparePackFolderInternal" Properties="ArtifactFormat=Old;MixedArtifiactFolder=$(MainArtifactsFolder)MixedArtifacts\"/>
<MSBuild Projects="$(MSBuildProjectFile)" Targets="PreparePackFolderInternal" Properties="ArtifactFormat=New;MixedArtifiactFolder=$(MainArtifactsFolder)DeployedArtifacts\"/>
</Target>
<Target Name="PreparePackFolderInternal">
<CallTarget Targets="PrepareInspectorWebServiceToPack;PrepareOtherFolders"/>
</Target>
<Target Name="CopyDefaultFiles">
<Exec Condition=" '$(ArtifactFormat)' == 'Old'" Command="xcopy "$(CompleteBinFolder)*.*" "$(MixedArtifiactFolder)$(ComponenetName)\Binaries" /I /Y /D /E /F"/>
<Exec Condition=" '$(ArtifactFormat)' == 'New'" Command="xcopy "$(CompleteBinFolder)*.*" "$(MixedArtifiactFolder)$(ComponenetName)" /I /Y /D /E /F"/>
<ItemGroup>
<GeneralConfigFiles Include="$(MixedArtifiactFolder)$(ComponenetName)\Binaries\*.config"/>
<PDBFiles Include="$(MixedArtifiactFolder)$(ComponenetName)\**\*.pdb"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Move Condition=" '$(ArtifactFormat)' == 'Old'" SourceFiles="#(GeneralConfigFiles)" DestinationFolder="$(MixedArtifiactFolder)$(ComponenetName)\Configurations"/>
<Move Condition=" '$(ArtifactFormat)' == 'New'" SourceFiles="#(PDBFiles)" DestinationFolder="$(MainArtifactsFolder)PDBs\$(ComponenetName)"/>
<Delete Condition=" '$(ArtifactFormat)' == 'Old'" Files="#(PDBFiles)"/>
</Target>
<Target Name="PrepareInspectorWebServiceToPack" Condition=" '$(BuildType)' != 'Clean' ">
<MSBuild Projects="$(MSBuildProjectFile)" Targets="CopyDefaultFiles" Properties="CompleteBinFolder=$(InspectorWebServicePublishPath);ComponenetName=InspectorWebService"/>
</Target>
<Target Name="PrepareOtherFolders">
<Exec Command="xcopy "$(SourcesPath)..\Certificates\*.*" "$(MixedArtifiactFolder)Certificates" /I /Y /D /E /F"/>
<Exec Command="xcopy "$(SourcesPath)\Resources\CCI\*.*" "$(DeployedPackageFolder)CCI\Configuration\" /I /Y /D /E /F"/>
</Target>
<Target Name="Pack" Condition=" '$(BuildType)' != 'Clean' ">
<RemoveDir Directories="$(PackageFolder)" />
<MakeDir Directories="$(PackageFolder)" />
<ItemGroup>
<InspectorWebServiceFilesForZip Include="$(DeployedPackageFolder)InspectorWebService\**\*.*" Exclude="$(DeployedPackageFolder)InspectorWebService\**\*.pdb" />
</ItemGroup>
<Zip ZipFileName="$(PackageFolder)$(VersionName)-InspectorWebService.zip" WorkingDirectory="$(DeployedPackageFolder)InspectorWebService" Files="#(InspectorWebServiceFilesForZip)" ZipLevel="9" ParallelCompression="false" />
<ItemGroup>
<AllZipFiles Include="$(DeployedPackageFolder)\**\*.*" Exclude="$(DeployedPackageFolder)\**\*.pdb" />
</ItemGroup>
<Zip ZipFileName="$(PackageFolder)$(VersionName)-!All.zip" WorkingDirectory="$(DeployedPackageFolder)" Files="#(AllZipFiles)" ZipLevel="9" ParallelCompression="false" />
<ItemGroup>
<AllPDBFiles Include="$(MainArtifactsFolder)PDBs\**\*.pdb"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Zip ZipFileName="$(PackageFolder)$(VersionName)-!PDBForAll.zip" WorkingDirectory="$(MainArtifactsFolder)PDBs" Files="#(AllPDBFiles)" ZipLevel="9" ParallelCompression="false" />
</Target>
<Target Name="Clean" Condition=" '$(BuildType)' == 'Clean' ">
<RemoveDir Directories="$(InspectorWebServicePublishPath)"/>
<RemoveDir Directories="$(PackageFolder)"/>
<RemoveDir Directories="$(MixedArtifiactFolder)"/>
</Target>
<Target Name="PauseBuild" Condition=" '$(PauseBuildOnError)' == 'true' ">
<Prompt Text="Press any key to continue ..." />
</Target>
<Target Name="ErrorHandler">
</Target>
</Project>
I want to add some files to embedded resourses at compile time with special naming. For this I wrote in .csproj
<Target Name="BeforeBuild" >
<ItemGroup>
<EmbeddedResource Include="..\Bin\$(Configuration)\*.*">
</EmbeddedResource>
</ItemGroup>
</Target>
But it always set <LogicalName> to default.
How can I do this?
I found solution. This renaming works:
<Target Name="BeforeBuild">
<ItemGroup>
<Frameworks Include="..\Bin\$(Configuration)\Frameworks\*.*" />
<Steps Include="..\Bin\$(Configuration)\Steps\*.*" />
</ItemGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<EmbeddedResource Include="#(Frameworks)">
<LogicalName>Frameworks.%(Filename)%(Extension)</LogicalName>
</EmbeddedResource>
<EmbeddedResource Include="#(Steps)">
<LogicalName>Steps.%(Filename)%(Extension)</LogicalName>
</EmbeddedResource>
</ItemGroup>
<Message Text="EmbeddedResource - #(EmbeddedResource)" />
</Target>
I'm trying to make an item group of dll's and exe's but filtering out any msi's and test.dll's.
The following snippet doesn't include the .exe in the UniqueAssemblies itemgroup. It does contain all the dll's and removes the msi as expected though. UniqueCompiledFiles does contain all the expected output files (.test.dll, .dll, .msi, .exe)
<Target Name="CustomCompile">
<MSBuild
BuildInParallel="true"
Projects="#(ProjectFiles)"
Properties="$(ProjectProperties)"
>
<Output TaskParameter="TargetOutputs" ItemName="CompiledFiles" />
</MSBuild>
<RemoveDuplicates Inputs="#(CompiledFiles)">
<Output TaskParameter="Filtered" ItemName="UniqueCompiledFiles" />
</RemoveDuplicates>
<ItemGroup>
<UniqueAssemblies
Include="%(UniqueCompiledFiles.Identity)"
Condition=" '#(UniqueCompiledFiles->EndsWith('.dll'))' == 'true' " />
<UniqueAssemblies
Include="%(UniqueCompiledFiles.Identity)"
Condition=" '#(UniqueCompiledFiles->EndsWith('.exe'))' == 'true' " />
</ItemGroup>
I also figured out this workaround that does properly filter the .exe.
<ItemGroup>
<UniqueAssemblies2
Include="%(UniqueCompiledFiles.Identity)"
Condition=" $([System.String]::new('%(UniqueCompiledFiles.Identity)').EndsWith('.exe')) " />
</ItemGroup>
Found out the culprit lines that could be removed to fix the problem but it doesn't actually answer the question.
<ItemGroup>
<!-- Workaround for MSBuild defect: https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild/issues/69 -->
<UniqueCompiledFiles Include="Project\bin\release\Project.exe">
<MSBuildSourceProjectFile>Project\Project.csproj</MSBuildSourceProjectFile>
<Platform>x86</Platform>
</UniqueCompiledFiles>
</ItemGroup>
Why is the #(UniqueCompiledFiles->EndsWith('.exe')) syntax not working as expected?
You're trying to use a Property Function on an item (instead of a property).
You should be able to get the desired result by using something like this:
<ItemGroup>
<UniqueAssemblies2
Include="%(UniqueCompiledFiles.Identity)"
Condition=" '%(Extension)' == '.exe' " />
</ItemGroup>