Output the name of the current DLL being acted on using MSBuild

Question

This is probably a really stupid MSBuild question but if I have

<ItemGroup>
<Dll Include="<Path_to_DLLs>\*.dll" />
</ItemGroup>

And then

<SomeTarget useFiles=@(Dll)>
....do stuff
</someTarget>

What I want to do is to output the current item that @(Dll) is looping through. Basically I wanting to output the name of the current DLL being acted on.

I think this must be possible and it is probably so simple but it is driving me nuts!

Answer 1

Aha The joys of metadata.

On the creation of every item in MSBuild, specific MetaData is assigned to it.

In this case I could use %(Filename) to retrieve the file name

This is a full list of Well Known metaData