ItemGroup Element (MSBuild)

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11/15/2016

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Contains a set of user-defined Item elements. Every item used in a MSBuild project must be specified as a child of an ItemGroup element.

Syntax

<ItemGroup Condition="'String A' == 'String B'">  
    <Item1>... </Item1>  
    <Item2>... </Item2>  
</ItemGroup>

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

Attribute	Description
`Condition`	Optional attribute. Condition to be evaluated. For more information, see Conditions.

Child Elements

Element	Description
Item	Defines the inputs for the build process. There may be zero or more `Item` elements in an `ItemGroup`.

Parent Elements

Element	Description
Project	Required root element of an MSBuild project file.
Target	Starting with .NET Framework 3.5, the `ItemGroup` element can appear inside a `Target` element. For more information, see Targets.

Remarks

Example

The following code example shows the user-defined item collections Res and CodeFiles declared inside of an ItemGroup element. Each of the items in the Res item collection contains a user-defined child ItemMetadata element.

<Project xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">  
    <ItemGroup>  
        <Res Include = "Strings.fr.resources" >  
            <Culture>fr</Culture>  
        </Res>  
        <Res Include = "Dialogs.fr.resources" >  
            <Culture>fr</Culture>  
        </Res>  
  
        <CodeFiles Include="**\*.cs" Exclude="**\generated\*.cs" />  
        <CodeFiles Include="..\..\Resources\Constants.cs" />  
    </ItemGroup>  
...  
</Project>

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