Microsoft.Build
                             
                            
                                17.14.28
                            
                        
                            
                                
                                
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                    dotnet add package Microsoft.Build --version 17.14.28
NuGet\Install-Package Microsoft.Build -Version 17.14.28
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Build" Version="17.14.28" />
<PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.Build" Version="17.14.28" />
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Build" />
paket add Microsoft.Build --version 17.14.28
#r "nuget: Microsoft.Build, 17.14.28"
#:package Microsoft.Build@17.14.28
#addin nuget:?package=Microsoft.Build&version=17.14.28
#tool nuget:?package=Microsoft.Build&version=17.14.28
Microsoft.Build
This package contains Microsoft.Build.dll, which defines MSBuild's API, including
Microsoft.Build.Evaluationfor evaluating MSBuild projects,Microsoft.Build.Constructionfor creating new MSBuild projects, andMicrosoft.Build.Executionfor building MSBuild projects.
Developers should reference this package to write applications that create, edit, evaluate, or build MSBuild projects.
To create or edit an MSBuild project, use the Microsoft.Build.Construction.ProjectRootElement class and call the Create or Open method.
To evaluate or build an MSBuild project, use the Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Project class by creating an instance of it with the appropriate parameters for your project. To retrieve evaluated items, call methods such as properties such as GetItems or GetPropertyValue.
| Product | Versions Compatible and additional computed target framework versions. | 
|---|---|
| .NET | net9.0 is compatible. net9.0-android was computed. net9.0-browser was computed. net9.0-ios was computed. net9.0-maccatalyst was computed. net9.0-macos was computed. net9.0-tvos was computed. net9.0-windows was computed. net10.0 was computed. net10.0-android was computed. net10.0-browser was computed. net10.0-ios was computed. net10.0-maccatalyst was computed. net10.0-macos was computed. net10.0-tvos was computed. net10.0-windows was computed. | 
| .NET Framework | net472 is compatible. net48 was computed. net481 was computed. | 
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.NETFramework 4.7.2
- Microsoft.Build.Framework (>= 17.14.28)
 - Microsoft.IO.Redist (>= 6.1.0)
 - Microsoft.NET.StringTools (>= 17.14.28)
 - System.Collections.Immutable (>= 9.0.0)
 - System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager (>= 9.0.0)
 - System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource (>= 9.0.0)
 - System.Memory (>= 4.6.0)
 - System.Reflection.Metadata (>= 9.0.0)
 - System.Reflection.MetadataLoadContext (>= 9.0.0)
 - System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe (>= 6.1.0)
 - System.Security.Principal.Windows (>= 5.0.0)
 - System.Text.Json (>= 9.0.0)
 - System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow (>= 9.0.0)
 - System.Threading.Tasks.Extensions (>= 4.6.0)
 
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net9.0
- Microsoft.Build.Framework (>= 17.14.28)
 - Microsoft.NET.StringTools (>= 17.14.28)
 - System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager (>= 9.0.0)
 - System.Diagnostics.EventLog (>= 9.0.0)
 - System.Reflection.MetadataLoadContext (>= 9.0.0)
 - System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData (>= 9.0.0)
 
 
NuGet packages (179)
Showing the top 5 NuGet packages that depend on Microsoft.Build:
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                                                            Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGenerators.Mvc
                                                        
                                                            
                                                         Code Generators for ASP.NET Core MVC. Contains code generators for MVC Controllers and Views.  | 
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                                                            Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Design
                                                        
                                                            
                                                         Code Generation tool for ASP.NET Core. Contains the dotnet-aspnet-codegenerator command used for generating controllers and views.  | 
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                                                            Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration
                                                        
                                                            
                                                         Contains the CodeGenCommand that finds the appropriate code generator and invokes it from project dependencies.  | 
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                                                            Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.EntityFrameworkCore
                                                        
                                                            
                                                         Contains Entity Framework Core Services used by ASP.NET Core Code Generators.  | 
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                                                            Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Core
                                                        
                                                            
                                                         Contains the core infrastructure used by ASP.NET Core Code Generators.  | 
                                                    
GitHub repositories (138)
Showing the top 20 popular GitHub repositories that depend on Microsoft.Build:
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                                                            dotnet/roslyn
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            The Roslyn .NET compiler provides C# and Visual Basic languages with rich code analysis APIs.
                                                         
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                                                            dotnet/runtime
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            .NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.
                                                         
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                                                            unoplatform/uno
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            Open-source platform for building cross-platform native Mobile, Web, Desktop and Embedded apps quickly.  Create rich, C#/XAML, single-codebase apps from any IDE. Hot Reload included! 90m+ NuGet Downloads!!
                                                         
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                                                            stride3d/stride
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            Stride (formerly Xenko), a free and open-source cross-platform C# game engine.
                                                         
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                                                            BepInEx/BepInEx
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            Unity / XNA game patcher and plugin framework
                                                         
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                                                            Azure/azure-sdk-for-net
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for .NET. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-net. 
                                                         
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                                                            xamarin/Xamarin.Forms
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            Xamarin.Forms is no longer supported. Migrate your apps to .NET MAUI.
                                                         
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                                                            dotnet/tye
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            Tye is a tool that makes developing, testing, and deploying microservices and distributed applications easier. Project Tye includes a local orchestrator to make developing microservices easier and the ability to deploy microservices to Kubernetes with minimal configuration.
                                                         
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                                                            grpc/grpc-dotnet
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            gRPC for .NET
                                                         
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                                                            dotnet/docfx
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            Static site generator for .NET API documentation.
                                                         
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                                                            tixl3d/tixl
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            Tooll 3 is an open source software to create realtime motion graphics.
                                                         
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                                                            scriban/scriban
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            A fast, powerful, safe and lightweight scripting language and engine for .NET
                                                         
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                                                            dotnet/samples
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            Sample code referenced by the .NET documentation
                                                         
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                                                            nuke-build/nuke
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            🏗 The AKEless Build System for C#/.NET
                                                         
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                                                            opentk/opentk
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            The Open Toolkit library is a fast, low-level C# wrapper for OpenGL, OpenAL & OpenCL. It also includes windowing, mouse, keyboard and joystick input and a robust and fast math library, giving you everything you need to write your own renderer or game engine. OpenTK can be used standalone or inside a GUI on Windows, Linux, Mac.
                                                         
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                                                            dotnet/roslynator
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            Roslynator is a set of code analysis tools for C#, powered by Roslyn.
                                                         
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                                                            dafny-lang/dafny
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            Dafny is a verification-aware programming language
                                                         
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                                                            GitTools/GitVersion
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            From git log to SemVer in no time
                                                         
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                                                            dotnet/sdk
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            Core functionality needed to create .NET Core projects, that is shared between Visual Studio and CLI
                                                         
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                                                            dotnet/macios
                                                        
                                                         
                                                            .NET for iOS, Mac Catalyst, macOS, and tvOS provide open-source bindings of the Apple SDKs for use with .NET managed languages such as C#
                                                         
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| Version | Downloads | Last Updated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17.14.28 | 73,653 | 10/14/2025 | |
| 17.14.8 | 248,474 | 5/13/2025 | |
| 17.14.7 | 6,800 | 5/13/2025 | |
| 17.14.5 | 3,870 | 5/13/2025 | |
| 17.13.26 | 19,094 | 5/13/2025 | |
| 17.13.25 | 3,730 | 5/13/2025 | |
| 17.13.9 | 218,592 | 2/11/2025 | |
| 17.12.50 | 2,535 | 10/14/2025 | |
| 17.12.36 | 4,788 | 5/13/2025 | |
| 17.12.35 | 3,258 | 5/13/2025 | |
| 17.12.6 | 1,331,668 | 10/30/2024 | |
| 17.11.48 | 40,555 | 10/14/2025 | |
| 17.11.31 | 66,332 | 5/13/2025 | |
| 17.11.4 | 2,475,081 | 8/15/2024 | |
| 17.10.46 | 9,308 | 10/14/2025 | |
| 17.10.29 | 3,951 | 5/13/2025 | |
| 17.10.4 | 8,888,027 | 5/21/2024 | |
| 17.10.0-preview-24081-01 | 1,219 | 4/25/2024 | |
| 17.9.5 | 657,102 | 2/14/2024 | |
| 17.8.43 | 54,702 | 10/14/2025 | |
| 17.8.29 | 164,601 | 5/13/2025 | |
| 17.8.27 | 1,482 | 5/13/2025 | |
| 17.8.3 | 23,194,594 | 11/14/2023 | |
| 17.7.2 | 8,600,586 | 8/24/2023 | |
| 17.7.0 | 207,842 | 8/9/2023 | |
| 17.6.3 | 452,655 | 5/16/2023 | |
| 17.5.0 | 1,729,642 | 2/28/2023 | |
| 17.4.0 | 258,588 | 11/11/2022 | |
| 17.3.2 | 22,281,010 | 10/14/2022 | |
| 17.3.1 | 218,299 | 8/24/2022 | |
| 17.3.0 | 126,564 | 8/24/2022 | |
| 17.2.2 | 50,505 | 10/14/2022 | |
| 17.2.0 | 956,279 | 5/11/2022 | |
| 17.1.0 | 2,882,094 | 3/8/2022 | |
| 17.0.1 | 227,030 | 10/14/2022 | |
| 17.0.0 | 29,757,844 | 11/8/2021 | |
| 16.11.6 | 2,899 | 5/13/2025 | |
| 16.11.0 | 827,427 | 8/19/2021 | |
| 16.10.0 | 996,343 | 5/25/2021 | |
| 16.9.0 | 16,655,143 | 3/2/2021 | |
| 16.8.0 | 5,318,807 | 11/11/2020 | |
| 16.7.0 | 525,782 | 9/30/2020 | |
| 16.6.0 | 681,490 | 6/9/2020 | |
| 16.5.0 | 1,056,753 | 3/16/2020 | |
| 16.4.0 | 1,011,080 | 12/4/2019 | |
| 16.3.0 | 1,321,625 | 9/26/2019 | |
| 16.0.461 | 2,119,958 | 4/3/2019 | |
| 15.9.30 | 10,440 | 5/13/2025 | |
| 15.9.20 | 12,899,638 | 11/21/2018 | |
| 15.8.166 | 3,767,858 | 8/14/2018 | |
| 15.7.179 | 4,845,291 | 5/21/2018 | |
| 15.7.0-preview-000145 | 4,752 | 4/10/2018 | |
| 15.7.0-preview-000011-1378327 | 1,341,199 | 4/5/2018 | |
| 15.6.85 | 81,469 | 4/5/2018 | |
| 15.6.84 | 3,624 | 4/5/2018 | |
| 15.6.82 | 1,573,733 | 2/26/2018 | |
| 15.5.180 | 161,115 | 12/6/2017 | |
| 15.5.179 | 14,235 | 12/6/2017 | |
| 15.4.8 | 686,854 | 12/6/2017 | |
| 15.3.409 | 55,154,163 | 8/11/2017 | |
| 15.3.0-preview-000388-01 | 208,921 | 6/27/2017 | |
| 15.3.0-preview-000117-01 | 139,766 | 5/9/2017 | |
| 15.1.1012 | 408,714 | 4/11/2017 | |
| 15.1.548 | 8,956,026 | 3/2/2017 | |
| 15.1.0-preview-000545-01 | 27,263 | 2/7/2017 | |
| 15.1.0-preview-000523-01 | 619,621 | 1/26/2017 | |
| 15.1.0-preview-000458-02 | 1,070,841 | 12/14/2016 | |
| 15.1.0-preview-000370-00 | 82,774 | 11/4/2016 | |
| 14.3.0 | 1,160,122 | 9/9/2016 |