Format of .csproj files

[-DG-]

In the course of investigating differences between C# projects
generated in VS2003 vs VS2005 (see my post about reformatting code),
I've found big differences in the .csproj file.

I haven't gone through the files to correlate with compile settings,
but at first glance it looks like there is much more info in the
..csproj file than in project->properties menus.

Does anyone have info on the format, and on how it meshes with project
build settings?

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

DG,

The csproj file is used by MSBUILD (which is what is used by VS.NET now
to compile .NET projects).

Here is an article which is an overview on MSBUILD which should help:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/msbuildpart1.asp

Hope this helps.