MSBuild Managed vs Unmanaged property

Question

Is there a way in MSBuild logic to determine if I am running managed vs unmanaged code? Not C++ vs C#, but just managed vs unmanaged? I\'d like to set some properties (usu

Answer 1

There are normally two things that change in a vcxproj file for managed complation (afaik, at least that's how we have it in our master c++/cli property sheet used for all cli projects: the CLRSupport property is set to true and the ClCompile ItemGroup has the CompileAsManaged metadata set to true. You can check on any of these or both. Here's a target which prints the values:

  
    
  

  
    @(ClCompile->AnyHaveMetadataValue('CompileAsManaged','true'))
  

  

  
    
  

As you can see getting the CompileAsManaged metadata value requires some treatment: I'm adding an item to the ClCompile group because if the group is empty you canot use CompileAsManaged; normally you can just omit this.