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Make a way for Target authors to easily clean up unused/intermediate Items after Target invocation

Area: EngineIssues impacting the core execution of targets and tasks.Issues impacting the core execution of targets and tasks.

Area: LanguageIssues impacting the MSBuild programming language.Issues impacting the MSBuild programming language.

Area: Performance

backlog

triaged

Status: Open.

Feature

#12894 In dotnet/msbuild;

· baronfel opened on Dec 8, 2025

Weirdness with item transforms and properties with quotes

Area: DocumentationIssues about docs, including errors and areas we should extend (this repo and learn.microsoft.com)Issues about docs, including errors and areas we should extend (this repo and learn.microsoft.com)

Area: LanguageIssues impacting the MSBuild programming language.Issues impacting the MSBuild programming language.

backlog

triaged

Status: Open.

#12624 In dotnet/msbuild;

· rolfbjarne opened on Oct 8, 2025

Item element in an ItemGroup in a Target updates all metadata

Area: DocumentationIssues about docs, including errors and areas we should extend (this repo and learn.microsoft.com)Issues about docs, including errors and areas we should extend (this repo and learn.microsoft.com)

Area: LanguageIssues impacting the MSBuild programming language.Issues impacting the MSBuild programming language.

triaged

Status: Open.

#12492 In dotnet/msbuild;

· KirillOsenkov opened on Sep 5, 2025

Whitespace in property names not issuing error

Area: LanguageIssues impacting the MSBuild programming language.Issues impacting the MSBuild programming language.

backlog

triaged

Status: Open.

Bug

#12352 In dotnet/msbuild;

· am11 opened on Aug 15, 2025

Option to support configure the Item likes property

Area: LanguageIssues impacting the MSBuild programming language.Issues impacting the MSBuild programming language.

backlog

triaged

Status: Open.

Feature

#12252 In dotnet/msbuild;

· WeihanLi opened on Jul 30, 2025

Collection Expression like condition syntax (with <code>in</code> / <code>not in</code> csharp-y idioms)

Area: LanguageIssues impacting the MSBuild programming language.Issues impacting the MSBuild programming language.

backlog

needs-designRequires discussion with the dev team before attempting a fix.Requires discussion with the dev team before attempting a fix.

triaged

Status: Open.

Feature

#12218 In dotnet/msbuild;

· am11 opened on Jul 24, 2025

RemoveAllProperties or other way to ensure single-instanced "utility" project builds

Area: LanguageIssues impacting the MSBuild programming language.Issues impacting the MSBuild programming language.

Priority:2Work that is important, but not critical for the releaseWork that is important, but not critical for the release

triaged

Status: Open.

Feature

#11390 In dotnet/msbuild;

· rainersigwald opened on Feb 4, 2025

Extend ItemGroup/PropertyGroup grammar to allow more user-friendly Conditions for common use cases

Area: LanguageIssues impacting the MSBuild programming language.Issues impacting the MSBuild programming language.

triaged

Status: Open.

Feature

#11329 In dotnet/msbuild;

· baronfel opened on Jan 24, 2025

[Bug]: Inconsistent behavior when using Choose element for conditional package references in MSBuild

Area: DocumentationIssues about docs, including errors and areas we should extend (this repo and learn.microsoft.com)Issues about docs, including errors and areas we should extend (this repo and learn.microsoft.com)

Area: LanguageIssues impacting the MSBuild programming language.Issues impacting the MSBuild programming language.

backlog

Priority:2Work that is important, but not critical for the releaseWork that is important, but not critical for the release

triaged

Status: Open.

#10149 In dotnet/msbuild;

· myth384 opened on May 17, 2024

[Bug]: TaskItem normalises path to build platform, not target platform

Area: LanguageIssues impacting the MSBuild programming language.Issues impacting the MSBuild programming language.

bug

gathering-feedbackThe issue requires feedback in order to be planned, please comment if the feature is useful for youThe issue requires feedback in order to be planned, please comment if the feature is useful for you

triaged

xplat

Status: Open.

Bug

#10121 In dotnet/msbuild;

· erikbra opened on May 9, 2024

.NET Framework MSBuild doesn't cast <code>char</code> to <code>string</code> in property functions

Area: LanguageIssues impacting the MSBuild programming language.Issues impacting the MSBuild programming language.

backlog

bug

Priority:2Work that is important, but not critical for the releaseWork that is important, but not critical for the release

triaged

Status: Open.

Bug

#9976 In dotnet/msbuild;

· rainersigwald opened on Apr 5, 2024

[Bug]: ExpressionShredder.GetReferencedItemNamesAndMetadata expression parser does not handle nested quotes

Area: LanguageIssues impacting the MSBuild programming language.Issues impacting the MSBuild programming language.

backlog

bug

Priority:3Work that is nice to haveWork that is nice to have

triaged

Status: Open.

Bug

#9940 In dotnet/msbuild;

· atykhyy opened on Mar 27, 2024