MSBuild Text Replacement Task

Introduction

A MSBuild task to allow replacement of a string in a file with another value.

Download

The latest version of the library can be downloaded from the Latest Release Page.

Usage

Include the DLL in your MSBuild project

<UsingTask TaskName="TextReplacementTask" AssemblyFile="..\PATH-TO-DLL\RhysG.MSBuild.Common.dll"/>

Then call the TextReplacementTask this takes several parameters described below. To replace all instances of the string $placeholder$ with Replacement Text:

<TextReplacementTask File="..\PATH-TO-FILE\SourceFile.js" OutputFile="..\PATH-TO-FILE\OutputFile.js" StringToReplace="$placeholder$" Value="Replacement Text" />

Parameters

Parameter	Description
File	The path to the source file
OutputFile	The path to the output file
StringToReplace	The text to find in the source file
Value	The text to replace all occurences of StringToReplace

License

This library is released under the FreeBSD License, see LICENSE.txt for more information. Please fork this repository and create a Pull Request for any useful updates/enhancements.

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