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# FlexDeploy - MSBuild Plugin Guide

> The MSBuild plugin provides a means to compile your .NET and Visual Studio projects using MSBuild.exe. Supported Versions The MSBuild plugin doesn’t i

The MSBuild plugin provides a means to compile your .NET and Visual Studio projects using MSBuild.exe.

# Supported Versions

The MSBuild plugin doesn’t include Microsoft Visual Studio or .NET Framework needed for using MSBuild.exe. Please download the necessarily licensed versions according to your organization requirement

* Supports the standard MSBuild Lifecycle Phases for .NET Framework.

* Supports 16.3.7 and lower versions. 

* Allows to pass arguments as well as properties.

# Key Features

* Supports multiple .NET project extensions like "sln", "csproj", "vbproj", "vcxproj", "dbproj", "fsproj", "pyproj", "rbproj", "wixproj", "vdproj", "isproj", "pssproj", "modelproj".

* A plugin can execute based on a project source folder or an MSBuild project file name with any one of the extensions mentioned above.

* The plugin will always look for the first matching extension or a file name to execute the build.

# Plugin Operations

* [execute (MSBuild)](https://docs.flexagon.com/flexdeploy-9-0-documentation/flexdeploy-plugin-guides/flexdeploy-msbuild-plugin-guide/execute-msbuild.md)