[Bug]: ControlManifest.Input.xml files that contain a "<" within an attribute value prevents the control from being loaded.

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What happened?

I created a PCF Control and when trying to load the control using this plugin it gave the following message: "An error occured while retrieving existing project details. Please report an issue on GitHub Page" and no other information.

After some investigation, I found that the plugin failed when I reenabled a <property /> which included the text <code> within an attribute value. A full example would look like this: <property name="name" display-name-key="name" description-key="Name <name>" of-type="SingleLine.Text" usage="bound" required="true" />

It also works when there is a > but doesn't work when there is the opening < anywhere within the attribute string value. Updating the value from the user interface and attempting to add either > or < parses it out into $gt; and $lt; respectively, but there's no indication regarding why its failing to open the control when not HTML encoded. This issue likely occurs with the occurrence of any < in any attribute string value in the entire xml file but I did not do exhaustive testing.

I downgraded by a few versions to see if it had worked there but it did not. The same thing occurs on the newest version of the plugin tool. I am using the newest version of XrmToolBox.

XrmToolBox generated an exception trace log and the most relevant portions of the log are as follows:

************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Maverick.PCF.Builder.PCFBuilder.PopulateControlDetails()
   at Maverick.PCF.Builder.PCFBuilder.PCFBuilder_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.UserControl.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

What version of the tool are you using?

2.2023.6.162

What version of XrmToolBox are you running?

No response

Relevant log output

************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Maverick.PCF.Builder.PCFBuilder.PopulateControlDetails()
   at Maverick.PCF.Builder.PCFBuilder.PCFBuilder_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.UserControl.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

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