MSBuild Task for Hello World Custom Tasks

Question

Can someone write a (or link) walkthrough that explains how to create a custom MSBuild task and run it during build? I am looking for a custom task that inherits from Microsoft.Build.Utilities.Task and does just that:

 public override bool Execute() { Log.LogMessage("Hello world!"); return true; } 

(I have been working on this for several hours and keep getting the “Task [independently]]. Check out the following message. I think I should miss some important step somewhere. If there is a clear guide, I can follow, perhaps I will find out where I can’t.)

Answer 1

Do you declare your own task in the MSBuild project file? You need a line like this:

  <UsingTask AssemblyFile="C:\PathTo\MyTasks.dll" TaskName="MyTasks.HelloWord" /> 

Then MSBuild can complete your task.

Answer 2

Cm.

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