How can I get MSBUILD to evaluate and print the full path when given a relative path?

Question

How can I get MSBuild to evaluate and print in a task an absolute path given a relative path?

Property Group

Answer 1

If you need to convert Properties to Items you have two options. With msbuild 2, you can use the CreateItem task

and with MSBuild 3.5 you can have ItemGroups inside of a Task