How to query MSBUILD file for list of supported targets?

Question

Is there any way to ask msbuild what build targets provided msbuild file support? If there is no way to do it in command prompt? May be it could be done programmatically?

Answer 1

Updated for .NET Framework 4, since the above has been deprecated. Import microsoft.build.dll and code is as follows:

using System;
using Microsoft.Build.Evaluation;
class MyTargets
{
  static void Main(string[] args)
  {
    Project project = new Project(args[0]);
    foreach (string target in project.Targets.Keys)
    {
      Console.WriteLine("{0}", target);
    }
  }
}