What happened to BeforeBuild and other targets in VS2012?

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I have same msbuild targets as you described, so I think your msbuild installation is fine.

Looks like they decide to make some cleanup to targets and dependencies ( not sure if this issue related to VS version, VS just using same targets, provided by msbuild). BeforeBuild and other targets still exists in Microsoft.common.targets. I suppose it just reserved for .NET projects (I never played with C++ ones, so I don’t know, how to build a pipeline there).

Anyway whether it works or not on previous versions, your problem can be solved much easier – just use new attributes BeforeTargets\AfterTargets for MSBuild 4.0 and hook your targets directly on whatever you want:

<Import Project="$(VCTargetsPath)\Microsoft.Cpp.targets" />
<Target Name="BeforeBuild" BeforeTargets="Build">
     <Message Text="### BeforeBuild ###" Importance="high" />
</Target>
<Target Name="BeforeCompile" BeforeTargets="Compile">
    <Message Text="### BeforeCompile ###" Importance="high" />
</Target>
<Target Name="AfterBuild" AfterTargets="Build">
    <Message Text="### AfterBuild ###" Importance="high" />
</Target>

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