Can MSBuild run regex on my config files ?

Question

MSBuild generates a configuration file for me. I would then like to replace certain strings in the file. Is this possible?

Also, I use Visual Studio as well to build my project. Can I do the same thing from Visual Studio?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Yes it can. Here is an opensource library from MSBuildTasks that has a RegEx replace task in it that can be executed when a project is built. I use it to handle the versioning of assemblies.