How manage third party dependencies with msbuild plugin

[pubudut]

I would like to know how to manage third party dependencies such as log4net with plugin.

[gluck]

This plugin only allows for msbuild execution from gradle, it doesn't plug dependencies.

Most common dependency mgmt for msbuild projects is NuGet, a nice addition to this plugin could be to execute nuget package restore before the build, and maybe generate the packages.config file from gradle-like dependencies, but that's not supported as of now (PR would be welcomed though).

[pubudut]

Another thing I would like to clarify about the plugin is,msbuild and .Net Framework components should be available within a system to msbuild plugin work properly ?

[gluck]

yes

[svermeulen]

For newer versions of msbuild you can specify 'restore' as a target. For example:

task restoreFoo(type: com.ullink.Msbuild) {
  solutionFile = "src/test2.sln"
  targets = ['restore']
}

task compileFoo(type: com.ullink.Msbuild) {
  dependsOn restoreFoo
  solutionFile = "src/test2.sln"
  targets = ['Build']
}