✅ Evaluating arbitrary XML in MSBuild?

Hi all! :cathi:
Is there any way to evaluate some arbitrary XML in MSBuild - similarly to how you'd do it with

<Import>

<Import>

, just without the need for a file? My use case is that I want to call into a script, e.g.

python supply-props.py

python supply-props.py

, which will supply dynamically-generated properties, targets, etc., based on a more sane build DSL, and then import those from the string that

Exec

Exec

returns.

I know that I can write the output to a temporary file and then

<Import>

<Import>

it, but doing it in-memory without the need for that would be much more elegant.

Thanks in advance! :catlove:

C#•2y ago•

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Hi all! :cathi:
Is there any way to evaluate some arbitrary XML in MSBuild - similarly to how you'd do it with

<Import>

<Import>

, just without the need for a file? My use case is that I want to call into a script, e.g.

python supply-props.py

python supply-props.py

, which will supply dynamically-generated properties, targets, etc., based on a more sane build DSL, and then import those from the string that

Exec

Exec

returns.

I know that I can write the output to a temporary file and then

<Import>

<Import>

it, but doing it in-memory without the need for that would be much more elegant.

Thanks in advance! :catlove: