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I'm a big fan of MSBuild tasks like GitVersionTask, xUnit.MSBuild or OctoPack and use them to version, test and package my assemblies during build time.

Here's my question:

Is there an alternative or equivalent to MSBuild tasks in the new .NET Core world where you have project.json files instead of csproj files?

Patrick Ineichen
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  • https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/05/project-json http://ivanz.com/2016/05/17/farewell-project-json-hello-msbuild-and-csproj You must be happy that Microsoft moves back to MSBuild. – Lex Li May 22 '16 at 13:45

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Like Danny mentioned, project.json has some elementary script hooks for the various stages. However, .NET CLI does not consider itself as a first class build system. Since you are a fan, you can use msbuild with .NET Core since it was recently ported to it. I have no idea in which state it is, but at least their CI builds are running.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/02/23/porting-msbuild-to-net-core/ => Their porting story

https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild => source code

Thomas
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Have you looked at the scripts section of a project.json file to see if it fulfills your requirements? It can run anything you could also run from the command line. At various stages, like prebuild, postbuild, republish, etc.

Danny van der Kraan
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