ProjectMetadata Class

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05/05/2015

Represents evaluated design-time metadata.

MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.ProjectMetadata

Namespace: Microsoft.Build.Evaluation
Assembly: Microsoft.Build (in Microsoft.Build.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Class ProjectMetadata _
    Implements IEquatable(Of ProjectMetadata)

public class ProjectMetadata : IEquatable<ProjectMetadata>

public ref class ProjectMetadata : IEquatable<ProjectMetadata^>

type ProjectMetadata =  
    class 
        interface IEquatable<ProjectMetadata>
    end

public class ProjectMetadata implements IEquatable<ProjectMetadata>

The ProjectMetadata type exposes the following members.

Properties

	Name	Description
	ConditionLocation	Location of the Condition attribute.MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.
	EvaluatedValue	Gets the evaluated metadata value. MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.
	IsImported	Determines if the metadata originated from an imported file.MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.
	ItemType	Gets the item type of the containing item definition or item.MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.
	Location	Location of the element.MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.
	Name	Gets the name of the metadata.MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.
	Predecessor	Gets the last metadata (from an item definition or item) that was overridden by this metadata during evaluation. MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.
	Project	Gets the project that contains this metadata.MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.
	UnevaluatedValue	Gets or sets the unevaluated metadata value. MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.
	Xml	Gets the associated project metadata element.MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	Equals	(Inherited from Object.)
	Finalize	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetHashCode	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetType	(Inherited from Object.)
	MemberwiseClone	(Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	(Inherited from Object.)

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Explicit Interface Implementations

	Name	Description
	IEquatable<ProjectMetadata>.Equals	Compares this project metadata with the given project metadata for equality.MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.

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Remarks

Never used to represent built-in metadata, like %(Filename). The metadata is always associated with project source code.

The metadata is contained by either by a ProjectItemDefinition or a ProjectItem.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

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