rainersigwald
commented
1 year ago Looks like it has regressed at some point since 16.11:
❯ &"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBuild.exe" /p:a.b=ab
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 16.11.2+f32259642 for .NET Framework
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
MSBUILD : error MSB4177: Invalid property. The name "a.b" contains an invalid character ".".
❯ msbuild /p:a.b=ab
MSBuild version 17.6.0-preview-23121-03+02c416287 for .NET Framework
❯
JaynieBai
Issue Description
Passing a property on the commandline with a dot in the name fails with no error message.
Steps to Reproduce
$ dotnet build /p:a.b=ab MSBuild version 17.6.0-preview-23108-10+51df47643 for .NET $ echo $? 1
Expected Behavior
An error message explaining the problem.
Actual Behavior
Failure with no explanation.
Analysis
No response
Versions & Configurations
$ dotnet --info .NET SDK: Version: 8.0.100-preview.1.23115.2 Commit: 913e4679b3
Runtime Environment: OS Name: Mac OS X OS Version: 12.6 OS Platform: Darwin RID: osx.12-x64 Base Path: /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/8.0.100-preview.1.23115.2/
Host: Version: 8.0.0-preview.1.23110.8 Architecture: x64 Commit: 7deac7d6da
.NET SDKs installed: 6.0.201 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk] 6.0.403 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk] 6.0.404 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk] 7.0.100 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk] 7.0.101 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk] 7.0.102 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk] 8.0.100-preview.1.23115.2 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]
.NET runtimes installed: Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.3 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.11 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.12 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.0 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 8.0.0-preview.1.23112.2 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.3 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.11 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.12 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.0 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 8.0.0-preview.1.23110.8 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Other architectures found: None
Environment variables: Not set
global.json file: Not found
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