Determine if MSBuild CoreCompile will run and call custom target

Question

This seems like an obvious thing to want to do but I have pulled most of my hair out trying to find any examples on the web or do it myself.

I have a c# solution wit

Answer 1

In the end the solution was a combination of Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi's blog entry and information from the MSDN Forum entry 'Execute target when (core)compile will execute'.

I basically took Sayed's injection method to get my target to run 'extend-corecompile.proj' on all projects without having to edit each proj file but replaced it's contents with an override for 'CoreCompileDependsOn' that points to a custom target that adopts the same inputs and outputs as the 'CoreCompile' target. The end result is a target that only runs when 'CoreCompile' will run while being centrally managed in the build script.

Thanks to all for their input and here is the skeleton code I used in 'extend-corecompile.proj':

    
        $(TargetsTriggeredByCompilation);
        CustomPostTarget
    




    
        $(CoreCompileDependsOn);
        CustomPreTarget
    




    




    

Not sure what will happen if CoreCompile fails, does it still call our target? I guess in time we'll find out :)