Friday, December 19, 2014

Handling spaces for file paths in MSBuild

If you need to deal with file/folder paths that contain spaces in it, this can be problematic when dealing with MSBuild since MSBuild does not automatically handle file paths with spaces in it similar to the command shell.

Fortunately, there is an easy solution to handling these file/folder paths that contain spaces in them.

My preference is to encapsulate them in a PropertyGroup element and assign them to a Property.  Then, I can surround them with the escaped HTML sequence for double quote characters " and then simply use these properties throughout my MSBuild project file!


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